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Women Undertakers: Back for the Dead

Women Undertakers: Back for the Dead

2019 · 52 min · Documentary

For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as death-bed vigils, as undertakers, as guardians of funeral rituals. Then everything changed. Since we no longer die at home, men took over. But today a growing number of women are making a comeback. For the good of the deceased?

Directed by Marc Wolfensberger

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