Don't Drop the Coffin!

Its a book with a difference - very easy to read and full of memoirs that will make you laugh and cry.


Couldn't put it down   August 31, 2003
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I couldn't put this book down and had to read it from start to finish in one go. It's one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. Barry Albin-Dyer comments on good days and bad as well as being informative about the funeral process. Some stories are horrific, some sad and others hilarious. Highly recommend anyone reading this.


Death is staring you in the face.   August 29, 2003
 6 out of 6 found this review helpful

Having watched the televison documentary, I picked up this thinking, I was going to read about what I had just previously been watching, but that is not the case.

This book is informative in explaining, all them questions about death, that us ordinary mortals, are too scared to ask. Covering burials, cremations and the new way forward cryonics. What does exactly happen in embalming and why do they exhume bodies so early in a morning?

You in some ways have to admire Barry Albin-Dyer, for his sheer business sense and gall in life. He has fingers in a number of pies, and how he has time to do funerals, is beyond me. This book explains, it all and proves an interesting insight into a fact of life, that none of us like to face. Like any job, there are tales of the moving and then outright bizarre. From the very strange Mr Muller, to insensitive vicars and punch ups at gravesides. There is one thing, that this book has got and that is warmth and humour, and that is shown through Albin-Dyer's handling of a very sensitive subject, while on the surface it appears humourous, you know that each individaul that encounters them will be treated with warmth and respect.

A book worthy of reading, about funerals and deaths not just in this country and in our culture, but many others as well.