WHAT REMAINS? LIFE, DEATH AND THE HUMAN ART OF UNDERTAKING by Rupert Callender (Chelsea Green £20, 336pp) Do you know why the bearers at funerals carry the coffin on their shoulders rather than by the ...
An undertaker allegedly raped his female colleague next to a corpse at a funeral home, a German court has heard. Bodo G., 68, is accused of raping another undertaker, a 41-year-old woman, next to an ...
Shane MacGowan is getting one of the most poetically perfect send-offs in history – his favourite pub landlord has become his undertaker and funeral boss. The Pogues singer spent 20 years drinking at ...
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