Subscribe Now

Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Read and listen as much as you want
  • Over 1 million titles
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • 7 days free trial, then €9.99/month
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe Now
Details page - Device banner - 894x1036
Subscribe Now

Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director

Subscribe Now
5 Ratings

3.6

Duration
4H 44min
Language
English
Format
Category

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: April 13, 2020
Ebook: January 1, 2019

Tags

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. It’s Your Funeral!: Plan the Celebration of a Lifetime Before It’s Too Late Kathy Benjamin
  2. Loss Adjustment Linda Collins
  3. A Place for Us Cassandra Chiu
  4. You Can’t Fall Off the Floor: And Other Lessons from a Life in Hollywood Harris Katleman
  5. The Last Cherry Blossom Kathleen Burkinshaw
  6. Singaporeans Have Been Praying to Trees For Over 200 Years. Here’s Why RICE media
  7. Great Second Acts: In Praise of Older Women Marlene Wagman-Geller
  8. Fear Gone Wild: A Story of Mental Illness, Suicide, and Hope Through Loss Kayla Stoecklein
  9. Dorothy Dandridge Donald Bogle
  10. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers Deborah Tuerkheimer
  11. Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir Tara McGowan-Ross
  12. The Stranger on the Bridge: My Journey from Suicidal Despair to Hope Jonny Benjamin
  13. Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File John Edgar Wideman
  14. Good Grief: Embracing life at a time of death Catherine Mayer
  15. Hippie Chick: Coming of Age in the '60s Ilene English
  16. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now Philip Wang
  17. The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants Jennifer Jewell
  18. Normal: A Mother and Her Beautiful Son Hilary Liftin
  19. Think Black: A Memoir Clyde W. Ford
  20. We Still Have Words Azdyne Amimour
  21. Children Under Fire: An American Crisis John Woodrow Cox
  22. Reluctant Editor PN Balji
  23. Killer in a White Coat: The True Story of New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher and the Team that Brought Him to Justice Charlotte Bismuth
  24. Diary of an Expat in Singapore Jennifer Gargiulo
  25. Do Right and Fear No One Leslie Thomas QC
  26. Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words Kimberly Harrington
  27. 9th of August Andre Yeo
  28. Found in Transition: A Mother's Evolution during Her Child's Gender Change Paria Hassouri, MD
  29. Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina Georgina Pazcoguin
  30. Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure Seema Yasmin
  31. Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir Karl Taro Greenfeld
  32. Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality Debbie Cenziper
  33. We Need To Talk: The truth about sexual violence and my fight for justice Emily Hunt
  34. Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley
  35. Daring: My Passages: A Memoir Gail Sheehy
  36. Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power Jennifer Worley
  37. On Your Case: A Comprehensive, Compassionate (and Only Slightly Bossy) Legal Guide for Every Stage of a Woman's Life Lisa Green
  38. Call You Right Back, Mum Wanda Beemsterboer
  39. We Post Spotify Songs on Instagram Stories Because We Don’t Know How to Talk About Our Feelings RICE media
  40. And Life Comes Back: A Wife's Story of Love, Loss, and Hope Reclaimed Tricia Lott Williford
  41. Let The People Have Him, Chiam See Tong: The Early Years Loke Hoe Yeong
  42. Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction Erica Garza
  43. It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different Cathy Newman
  44. The Road to Roses: Heartbreak, Hope, and Finding Strength When Life Doesn't Go as Planned Desiree Hartsock Siegfried
  45. Mama Bear: One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life and Her Own Shirley Smith
  46. Voice of Rebellion: How Mozhdah Jamalzadah Brought Hope to Afghanistan Roberta Staley

Start with these

View all titles
  1. Fourth Wing (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Empyrean 1 Rebecca Yarros
    4.7
  2. Fourth Wing (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Empyrean 1 Rebecca Yarros
    4.8
  3. A Court of Thorns and Roses (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: A Court of Thorns and Roses 1 Sarah J. Maas
    4.3
  4. Quicksilver: The Fae & Alchemy Series, Book 1 Callie Hart
    4.4
  5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
    4.7
  6. Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros
    4.6
  7. The Reckoning (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Zodiac Academy 3 Susanne Valenti
    4.5
  8. Onyx Storm (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Empyrean 3 Rebecca Yarros
    4.6
  9. The Awakening [Dramatized Adaptation]: Zodiac Academy 1 Susanne Valenti
    3.9
  10. From Blood and Ash (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Blood and Ash 1 Jennifer L. Armentrout
    4.3
  11. Nocticadia Keri Lake
    4.2
  12. Twisted Love Ana Huang
    3.7
  13. The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
    4.7
  14. The Reckoning (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Zodiac Academy 3 Susanne Valenti
    4.5
  15. The Tenant Freida McFadden
    3.9

This is why you’ll love Storytel

  • Listen and read without limits

  • 800 000+ stories in 40 languages

  • Kids Mode (child-safe environment)

  • Cancel anytime

Unlimited stories, anytime

Unlimited

Listen and read as much as you want

9.99 € /month
7 days for free

  • 1 account

  • Unlimited Access

  • Offline Mode

  • Kids Mode

  • Cancel anytime

Try now
Company
Explore
Useful links
Language and region

  • English

  • International

  • App Store
  • Google Play
Follow us