Inside The Undertakers BBC1 9pm

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Anyone else going to be tuning into this tonight?

Documentary with Stacey Dooley behind the scenes of a family run funeral business.

I'll be watching. When my adult stepson died I realised that I didn't want my daughter to have to sort all this stuff out when my time comes. I've chosen and paid for my woodland burial plot, written the 'service' and stated details, like what I want to be dressed in. I think we ought to talk about it more.

Yes. I thought it was sensitivity done. I'm not sure I could work in that industry. I'd feel sad all of the rime.

I tried to watch it but SD just grated on me so much, calling people mate and being so flippant. I know I'm possibly being somewhat unreasonable too but being a mortician just seems like a very odd choice of job for a 16 year old girl. I'd want my 16 yr old to be working towards being an engineer or doctor or in HR or traveling the world, not embalming dead bodies.

@Ffsebok. She will always be in work I guess and someone has to do these jobs. I guess she was happy and felt like she was helping those people who are grieving. A vast majority of job choices will always stem from where you are in the class hierarchy.

I thought it could have been so much better if had been less about SDs personal ‘journey’ to come to terms with mortality and with another person doing it completely. I thought her involvement with Lexi’s DM was intrusive. I know she would have agreed to it all, but it still felt exploitative, SD standing red-eyed outside the door, saying how do you ever cope with a parent’s worst nightmare , while the mum was in there visiting her daughter for the last time. I felt she handled Edwin’s family better, but how she came across with the twin sisters, also felt clumsy. If it was about normalising death, I’m not sure it fulfilled the brief .

I'd want my 16 year old to be working towards whatever career makes her happy and enables her to be financially independent

I'll be watching this on iPlayer tonight, sounds really interesting

I'd want my 16 year old to be working towards whatever career makes her happy and enables her to be financially independent.

Same here. It’s a good, and (for now) secure career. For the right person it sounds to give them a lot of satisfaction. It’s the last thing you can do for someone and if a family wants to view their relative, its so important to try ensure their lasting image is of their loved one looking at peace, well groomed and dressed. I’d not be putting someone off doing that if they’d done their research and had shadowed someone doing it etc.

I watched it but felt it could have done better without Stacey Dooley as presenter.

Thought she could have dressed more appropriately whilst picking up the bodies from the hospital, she was almost falling out if her top

I watched but Dh can’t stand SD so left
me to it. I do agree that it should have been less about her own personal journey with death, that could have been it’s own programme and this could have been given to someone else.
Although I too suppose I fear death but it’s because I don’t want to miss out! Miss out on my dc growing up, grandchildren, great grandchildren…
The young embalmer was fascinating.
I loved the range of floral tribute choices, I lost 2 friends last year, very young. They both had spectacular
floral arrangements and almost a year on they have lost some colour but look beautiful.

I watched but agree that SD wasn't the best presenter.
I know the firm very well indeed and they are utterly professional and very kind people.

A friend of mine worked for that company also from a very young age. It's set him on a really good career path. He does something different now, but still in the industry.

I also found SD grating. And I agree, too much about her journey.

Yes. They are excellent. Thought I hate the silver hearses. Give me black!

I absolutely could work in the industry and found the program fascinating but it would have fared better as a narrated “fly on the wall” style such as the Ambulance series. SD made it all about her and it came over crass and clumsy and I must admit I like her slightly less as a result.

I'm a florist. I get more satisfaction in getting a funeral spot on than a wedding. I'm fanatical in that I think the flowers should be premium quality, not the leftovers. Helping a family is the best part of my job. It's vital that for the time they're spending with their loved one that they can have meaningful tribute to help them.

" I'd want my 16 yr old to be working towards being an engineer or doctor or in HR or traveling the world, not embalming dead bodies."

Wow, that's pretty wild. She's made a great career for herself, maybe not doctor or engineer but still pretty important and has a major impact daily.

I love Stacey so I was fine with her doing this show, and I feel like I learnt a lot. I want a wicker coffin now, although the rainbow lined one was pretty cool!

I have just watched this on iplayer. I must admit I am not that interested in how Stacey feels about death.
I also thought some of her questioning was very clunky. Thon she is getting a bit stuck for a format.