What Remains? Life, Death & the Human Art of Undertaking

Rupert Callender is known as the first “punk undertaker” — this book is his story of working with the dead, touching on themes of everyday humanity and humility, facing death and its goodbyes, and the courage and compassion it takes to do the work. Rupert’s story begins with his own unresolved grief for his parents and his cultural ancestors — one fulled with political deviance, religious non-conformance, and acid house culture. Fusing his metaphysical beliefs, his history, with his own experiences in death, his DIY ethos helped heal the grief of others and help them face death themselves. Charged with the political, the emotional, the subversive, this book is a story of death and facing it a punk way.