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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
A thoroughly interesting and enlightening conversation about the possibilities, expectations and choices in a modern funeral.
Carrie Weekes is one half of the A Natural Undertaking, funeral directors in Kings Heath, Birmingham. Carrie and Fran founded the business together on the principal ‘that choice and the power to take greater control are important when saying our final farewells’. You can find out more about them at their website: https://www.anaturalundertaking.co.uk.
You can also find the links below to the resources that Carrie mentioned in our chat:
The Natural Death Centre – http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/
The Natural Death Handbook – http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/index.php?page=book-shop
The Good Funeral Guide – https://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/
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
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