These chronicles, both dramatic and funny, highlight the importance of a job of tremendous aid to families in mourning, helping to bring them peace.

In this book, young undertaker and funeral officiant Sébastien Montaut brings his oft-misunderstood profession out of the shadows. With great sensitivity, honesty, and humor, he tells us all about the unsuspected realities of his job, one he discovered by accident upon chancing through a funeral home door at age 24. That day, he found his calling. From pallbearers to celebrants, monumental masons to embalmers, hospitals to retirement homes, Sébastien Montaut uncompromisingly details his daily routine. While firemen and doctors sometimes hold the hands of people who are dying, the undertaker often holds the ones of those who stay.