Life As a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living

Download or read book Life As a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living written by Francis Tipene and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ∗Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, as seen on Netflix∗ A celebration of life and death. A book to make you laugh and cry. A deep, funny and personal story about the lives of New Zealand's favourite undertakers, Francis and Kaiora Tipene. Born and raised in Northland, the married couple and parents to five boys now star in the third series of their own reality television show The Casketeers, a show about day-to-day life (and death) at their Auckland funeral business, Tipene Funerals. This is Francis and Kaiora's story, a story about a modest yet richly cultural Maori upbringing in the communities of Pawarenga and Kaitaia, the trials and tribulations of their love and marriage, the joy of raising five sons, and the dedication and mahi required to grow a business. It's also a book about traditions of tangihanga, tikanga Maori and Polynesian ways of morning the dead. Inspirational, hilarious and wise: this is a book to make you see dying, grief and remembrance in a totally new light.