More to Death Edition3 2014 | Page 38

Fran Hall of the Natural Death Centre responds to Ru Callender’s article about embalming. A beautiful corpse? Rupert speaks for all of us at the NDC with his views on embalming; he writes so eloquently and with such passion about being in the presence of the unadorned dead – how I wish that he could be wheeled out at every gathering of funeral staff around the country to challenge their acceptance of the process which is carried out on so many of our dead relatives!