Book: “Confessions of a Funeral Director” by Caleb Wilde

The metanarrative that we’ve been given is that death is entirely negative. We use war metaphors to describe our personal “battles” with terminal sickness as though we believe death is an enemy that needs to be fought. With the “death as negative” story, it’s made it easier for us to abdicate our responsibilities to the dead and dying over to the “death and dying professionals”, who have been trained to care for, beautify and hide the horrors of it.