The Undertaking

Recently, a very interesting program aired on WGBH on “undertaking”.

 

Mr Thomas Lynch whose profession is “Undertaking” has written a book on the same, for the life of me, cannot remember where I read this line,

 

“Funerals are for the Living-The dead don’t care” But, …Thomas Lynch added “The dead do matter”.

 

While I could care less about the latter part of the statement – which is shameless self-preservation after mortal demise of the individual…the first sentence is an all time classic…

 

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/10/30/a_middleman_between_life_and_death/