60:
Business of Death
Originally aired 04.18.1997
Usually we talk about death as a tragedy, a mystery, a hard-to-comprehend fact of life. But in addition to all that, for all sorts of people it's also ... a job.
Stories of undertakers, homicide detectives, slaughterhouse workers, enunculators, autopsy pathologists, exterminators, and others. Does their contact with death teach them something we should learn?
An Alan Ginsberg poem and Ira Glass. (2 minutes)
Thomas Lynch reads from his book The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. (14 minutes)
Michael Lesy reads. (13 minutes)
Actor Michael Stumm reads from fireman and fiction writer Larry Brown's book On Fire. (4 minutes)
Writer David Sedaris on an unwelcome surprise in a toilet — a turd. (14 minutes)
Act Five. The Happiest Death Worker.
Meema Spadola with Lou Zeidberg. (10 minutes)
