Ashes to Admin: The Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

by Evie King

I am actually writing a book about life, not death; and living life through the oddly invigorating lens of death, perhaps all the better for it.

life goes on without you, relax and enjoy your turn, then disappear as mysteriously as you came.

eradicating worrying through planning, control, understanding, rationalising, and then accepting.

the main problems we all have with death is the here one minute, gone the next thing. How can someone be with us, so full of life, opinions, jokes, achievements and then be completely absent, forever? It doesn’t compute.

For those who fear death I always say, did you mind that really long bit of nothing before you were born?

befriend death, turn a light on, extinguish those shadows, and live well; because that’s the bit that matters.