Six counties under
I'm off to a wake tonight. Well, not quite. Our new TV documentary, Sorry For Your Trouble -- a journey into death and dying -- is broadcast tonight at 10.35 on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One Northern Ireland. To mark the occasion, Michael Beattie, who produced the programme for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, is hosting a "tranmission party" at his home: guests will enjoy dinner and drinks then watch the documentary as it goes out. But no one will be dressed in black, I assure you; we're very proud of the final product.
Michael's a dab hand at the harmonica and I may be persuaded to strum some chords on the guitar; if anyone sings, that would definitely qualify as a wake, wouldn't it? Jane Veitch, the assistant producer, will be there, and she plays piano, so this could still be forming a band tonight. Unfortunately, David Barker, our cameraman, is on another shoot in England and will miss the party. That's a long way to go to avoid having to sing. We'll miss you DB.
WIth three out of four of our team in the room, what a great way to end a project that crisscrossed much of Northern Ireland and both the Atlantic and the Irish Sea to produce an hour-long exploration of the most mysterious subject we could ever hope to examine. There were quite a few laughs along the way too, as you'll see tonight (10.35, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One NI).
Comments
This was a fascinating progamme handling a very taboo subject. It was dealt with scientifically but also sensitively. I'm sure it has provoked a lot of discussion in households. The detail in this programme was really interesting and informative.
Such a contrast in the natural burial ground and our traditional cemetery. I can see how you felt the peace and beauty of that place. The sun shining was bound to have helped.
Congratulations - strange choice of words in dealing with death but the programme was a great success.
We need to appreciate the life we have and live it the best we can and enjoy and for those who have gone before us remember they are still in our memories and not located in a specific burial place they are within us.
Well done to all the team.
Just saw your programme. Very helpful to see "backstage" at Roselawn. I did ask questions when my parents were cremated but it helps to see what actually happens. Like the idea of natural burial too.
Thanks
Absolutely Cracking show, Was glued to it for the whole hour.
When's the next one ?
I viewed the programme with professional interest as someone who has a part to play in the death business dealing with approximately 150-200 deaths a year, I have for the past 30 years been removing the bodies from the wards to the morgue and releasing them into the care of the undertakers more in the winter months less in the summer months, I recall one time along with a colleague having to lay a body out in the chapel of rest in the hospital where I work for a family viewing we noticed that there was something different about the chapel of rest it immediately dawned on us that all the chairs were missing 30 ornamental chairs to be exact, after investigating the matter further it was soon realised that the morgue and the chapel of rest had been broken into during the previous night and all the chairs had been stolen by the chair snatchers, my employers had to take steps to make the building a virtual fortress by putting bars and grills on the windows and doors, even in death nothing is sacred.
Then there are the new doctors who come to certify the death for cremation for the first time and ask the porter what to do, and then there are the new porters who only last a matter of days until they are requested to remove a body from the ward to the morgue they resign because they just can’t get their head around lifting dead bodies as part of their job even though there is counselling available for those that require it. I am sure that there were to those who turned their TV off or changed channels.
Good and interesting programme.
Yes, the natural burial seemed far and away the best. Helped that it was filmed on such a beautiful day.
(I thought a wall, somewhere, would be nicer than the stones on the ground. Each family could put a small memorial tablet on it - the sort you get on the walls of churches.)
I couldn't watch most of the post mortem sequence - was it me, or was that bloke unnaturally cheery? - but I'm glad to know all the details of what happens - it's somehow reassuring. Not appealing - I don't fancy the nail varnish, or the eye-caps, or the artificially induced rosy glow - but it made the whole process seem routine and normal rather than taboo.
Thanks.
I congratulate William Crawley and the team that made this programme. This was without doubt the best programme ever made about this subject. It gave us an insight to a taboo subject that none of us really understand. I watched this programme not nowing what I was going to see and was absolutely delighted with what I did see.
Well done ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ NI.
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