A Life Among the Dead: Stories from an Irish Funeral Director

A profoundly compassionate and educational reflection on death, A Life Among the Dead by David McGowan, Ireland's best-known Funeral Director, explores the business, science, and unexplained elements of death while demystifying the process of dying and what happens to the body afterward. It is a poignant, humorous, and educational account of a life lived with purpose in the service of the dead.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 12 September 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A profoundly compassionate, educational reflection on death - The Irish Times When death is a way of life . . . In A Life Among the Dead, David McGowan, Ireland's best-known Funeral Director, and subject of the Award-winning Netflix documentary The Funeral Director, guides us through the business, the science, and the unexplained elements of death. Alongside exploring the unique approach of Irish culture when it comes to grief and death, David seeks to demystify the process of dying and what happens to the body afterward. The only certainty when we come into this life is that we are going to leave it, and yet it's something most people are reluctant to discuss or allow themselves to think about. David's mission is to open up conversations and encourage people to have an understanding of their loved ones' wishes as well as their own. Poignant, humorous, and educational, this is an account of a life lived with purpose in the service of the dead.

Weight: 498g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035412228