We need to talk about death
How would you prefer to die? And how would you like to be sent off into the hereafter? It’s some people’s jobs to make us think, talk about and plan for dying. Sarah Taaffe-Maguire meets five people for whom death is part of the day job, and asks if Ireland is becoming more comfortable with discussing the great inevitable
David Fanagan
David Fanagan has spent 35 years in the business of death, in his role as funeral director with Fanagans Funeral Directors. Over that time, he has found the conversation surrounding death has opened up hugely. In 1974, “funerals weren’t discussed”, he says. “If I met somebody for the first time and was asked: ‘What do you do?’, ...
