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

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

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