Final Departures
Subtitle: Around the World with Britain's Most Remarkable Undertaker
Publisher: Hodder Headline
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780340861639
Subjects: Customs; Death & Dying; Customs & Traditions; General; Social Science / Death & Dying; Humor
Description: The author, head of one of Britain's largest firms of funeral directors, takes readers on a tour of the many traditions and practices associated with death from around the world, lifting the lid on the gruesome, the tragic, the hilarious and the mysterious secrets of the business of death.