Dealing with death, dying, and bereavement, this good documentary can keep a very good balance between being informative and showing the actions and emotions of people who deal with death as a parent, a close relative, the dying person him/herself, and the undertaker.

Most of all, I liked calm, deep, and friendly character of Thomas Lynch. Also don’t miss Lynch reading his piece entitled “Tract”:

Yes, February. With the cold behind and the cold before you and the darkness stubborn at the edges of the day. And a wind to make the cold more bitter. So that ever after it might be said, “It was a sad old day we did it after all.”[...] And you should see it till the very end. Avoid the temptation of tidy leavetaking in a room, a cemetery chapel, at the foot of the altar. None of that. Don’t dodge it because of the weather. We’ve fished and watched football in worse conditions. It won’t take long. Go to the hole in the ground. Stand over it. Look into it. Wonder. And be cold. But stay until it’s over. Until it is done.[...] Have no fear—you’ll know what to do. Go now, I think you are ready.