Exploring and improving our relationship with death through respectful enquiry. Here you’ll find conversations with those who work with the dead and grieving, in addition to episodes examining death through a lens of history & the arts, folklore and food.
We’ll take you from ancient funerary rituals to forensic anthropologists via green burials, disaster recovery and Persephone’s pomegranates. We hope the journey & stories will provide you with some of the knowledge and empathy you need to navigate this vast hidden world as well as shine a light on the kindness and tenderness displayed by those professionals who truly take care of our dead.
Contact: A Question of Death
About the Episode
“You’re going to die. That’s not meant as a threat, by the way. Just establishing a premise.”
― Evie King, Ashes to Admin: The Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer
In this episode I had wonderful conversation with Evie King about her wonderful book Ashes to Admin where she shared her story of how she became a Council Funeral Officer. The book contains intriguing and moving stories of some of those Evie worked who were the beneficiaries of a Section 46 funeral.
Discover the importance of rituals, the realities of funeral poverty, and how we can better prepare for the inevitable.
You can buy her book here: Ashes to Admin
As part of her campaign to help raise the standard of Council funerals across the UK you can find the text to send your MP here: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25061214-mp-email—council-funerals
About the Podcast
Exploring and improving our relationship with death through respectful enquiry.
Here you’ll find conversations with those who work with the dead and grieving, in addition to episodes examining death through a lens of history & the arts, folklore and food.
We’ll take you from ancient funerary rituals to forensic anthropologists via green burials, disaster recovery and Persephone’s pomegranates. We hope the journey & stories will provide you with some of the knowledge and empathy you need to navigate this vast hidden world as well as shine a light on the kindness and tenderness displayed by those professionals who truly take care of our dead.
Contact: A Question of Death