The ultimate book on death around the world by the man who has seen it all - Britain's most cosmopolitan undertaker, Barry Albin-Dyer!
In this book, Barry Albin-Dyer leaves the boundaries of his beloved Bermondsey and takes us on a breathless tour of the many traditions, customs and practices of dying around the world.
In the tradition of his acclaimed 'Don't Drop The Coffin' - now the subject of a six-part ITV series - Barry lifts the lid on the gruesome, the tragic, the hilarious and the mysterious secrets of the business of death. His stories include the funerals of the famous - Elvis and John Lennon - and the not so famous, such as the burial of the man who invented the ejector seat.
The gruesome, including the Sicilian practice of suspending a dead body on public display until the skin has dehydrated and dropped away, and the ridiculous, such as the American man who has his dead wife's body on display inside a glass coffee table in his living room. Unique, brilliant insight - with pictures!
