A Certain Kind of Death

A Certain Kind of Death

2003 · 69 min · ★ 7.3 · Documentary

Unblinking and unsettling, this documentary lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all around us - what happens to people who die with no next of kin.

Directed by Grover Babcock

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