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Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director

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5 Ratings

3.6

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4H 44min
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English
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Biographies

Why would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead?

Angjolie Mei, funeral director and "life celebrant", recounts how the death of her father—a veteran known as ‘The Coffin King’ in the funeral industry—prompted this dramatic choice.

What exactly happens during embalming? What kind of post-death restoration is needed for second-degree burn victims? What are the little-known facts surrounding suicide in Singapore?

Angjolie offers the insider’s view on these and other aspects of an industry usually shrouded in mystery, and reflects on how her perceptions of death, and life, have changed since she chose this extraordinary profession.

© 2017 by Angjolie Mei. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.

© 2020 Storyside (Audiobook): 9789178897599
© 2019 Epigram Books (Ebook): 9789814757492

Release date

Audiobook: 13 April 2020
Ebook: 1 January 2019

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