This review of "Don't Drop the Coffin" was produced by Sam for a school project.

Read and enjoy.

 

By Sam Bedingham-Pearce

You may think this is very strange for a ten year old boy to be reading a book about Funerals, but i like to read real stories and when you have a Funeral Director living and working on your door step you start to wonder what he does and why.

Well my mum was reading this book and she was really laughing one minute and the next minute she had tears in her eyes so i just had to see what was so funny and so sad. 1 could have read a book about-my. football team Liverpool which i would have found very interesting but then not every one likes football or my favorite team Liverpool.

People should no what happens to you when you come to the end of your life, every one dies at some point like every one is born at some time.

When i grow up i want to be a Paramedic or a Surgeon, so that if i cant save some one or they are too ill at least i know that when they leave me they will be in good hands and treated with the most resepect and be realy really looked after, this is why i chose this book.

 

 

CONTENTS

Introduction to the Television Edition

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

Down Amongst The Coffins

It's Your Funeral

Bringing Out The Dead

Cems, Crems or Outer Space

Murders and Gangland

From Here To Where

The Thirteen Month Illness

Making a Living Out Of Dying

Funerals American Style

Cryonics:the Techno Funeral

 

 

DONT DROP THE COFFIN

Author Barry Albin-Dyer

This review is about the life and works of Barry Albion and his family business as a Funeral Directors.

Barry is a good family friend and a strange one to have and this is all in his book, this book makes you laugh it makes you cry and it makes you feel that when you do die you will most certainly be really well looked after by Barry and his team.

The book starts off when our local Bermondsey boy was only eight years old when he started to go out with his father to remove boddies of people that had died in there homes it was not a very pleaseant job but it was very interesting, Barrys father had one very important thing to say to Barry one of the golden rules which was whatever you do Barry DONT DROP THE COFFIN. F.A.Albin's has been involved in furerals in Bermondsey since the late eighteenth century so they are the best in what they do. Barry purchased F.A.Albin & Sons in 1986, his two sons have followed in his footsteps Simon and Johnathan and do wonderful jobs for Albins, Barry also has a very professional team at his funeral home in Culling Road.

The main plot of this book is to make you feel that when you die its not all nasty and black and horrible its very peaceful. Barry explains in his book the jobs he had to do from the time he was eight years old to the presant day how his job has took him all over the world and how he has learnt new things on the way, Barry has also learnt lots of different things about peoples religion on his travels so that he knows that when living in such a large community full of people of all different faiths he knows just what to do, Barry is a bit like a Vicar and a Policeman and a Doctor and many other jobs all put together Barry is an extreamly clever man that is why he wrote this book so normal people could see what an amazing job Barry and his team do.