Mark Wakely invites us to join him on a journey, which might just change the way we think about how we live out our lives. The journey begins just before life ends, as we sit beside the deathbed and seek to understand the dying process through the eyes of palliative care doctors and nurses. The path takes us from the moment of death through to the grave.
What lies between these two points is a personal inquiry into some of the issues and customs surrounding the way we deal with death, a journey that will take us into hospices and hearses, crematoriums and churches, morgues and mausoleums.
On the way we'll meet grave-diggers and embalmers, artists, rabbis and undertakers, florists, funeral celebrants and forensic scientists. All we need to pack for the trip into the domain of death is our curiosity about life.
