Is it normal to want to know (from experience) what a dead body smells like?

I want to know what a dead body smells like. I have wanted to ever since I saw my grandmother's body in a funeral home a few years back. It was a traumatic experience, and for at least a week afterwards the waxen face of the dead body was the first image that filled my mind every morning when I woke up. But I've actually got a mental blank over the entire memory now: I can't conjure it at all, even though I remember the moment before and after seeing it perfectly well - I keenly remember the moment I turned away from the casket and clutched myself and started howling.

I want to know if the smell of the room was the smell of the body, or the embalming fluid, or something else. I don't know why, but I have this feeling that if I could be sure what a dead body smelled like, it would just relieve something in me. Also, besides any logical reason, I'm just really curious. Situations where the average person would ever smell a dead human body are extremely rare in Western Europe. It's not even like you can 'download' the smell from the internet like you can audiovisual media depicting dead people.
There is no way of recording, digitizing and storing a smell like you can a sight or a sound: you have to be there in person to experience it.

What do you think? Is this need to smell dead people normal?