Celebrity undertaker Barry Albin Dyer's warm and endearing insights and anecdotes will give you a helpful understanding of death, and guidance on how to prepare in advance both for the funeral of a loved one and for your own 'final departure'. Mixing practical advice with fascinating true stories, Barry demonstrates that the mourning of a death can also be an opportunity for the celebration of a life. Includes advice on making a will and arranging a funeral.

Author Biography

Barry Albin Dyer is President of FIAT-IFTA, the world association of funeral directors, and heads up F. A. Albin and Sons in Bermondsey, South London, one of the country's oldest family-run firm of funeral directors. His first book, Don't Drop the Coffin became the basis of a six-part ITV documentary series of the same name. He is now one of the UK's best-known undertakers and is consulted on and conducts some of the most high-profile funerals in the country. He is also the sole European agent for Detroit's controversial Cryonics Institute.