Glen
Male | 20s | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 56
EXTRACT: I was sick once. Doctor couldn't work out what was wrong with me. Remember? Throwing up. Didn't have a clue. Thought it was something, I can't remember what, but I didn't have the symptoms. Really had him stumped. Found out later he'd had the lot. Headache, fever, all the symptoms I should have had. I had the sickness, he had the symptoms. I should have known, he should have told me. He should have bloody well told me!
Sissy
Female | 20s | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 60
EXTRACT: The first death is not too bad until the packing. Loads and loads of gauze packing to stop the body fluids draining. Up the rectum, sometimes the vagina, if there is bleeding to do with the cause of death, or they’re menstruating. We usually leave the ears alone, but do the nose. We tape their mouths and eyes shut.
Contains adult themesCath
Female | 50s | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 67
EXTRACT: I have faced up to it. I know he's gone. I just can't bring myself to think of him...lying out there. I can accept that he's gone, but... The first time I went out there after the funeral, I just stood and looked at that plaque on the grass with his name on it and mine and yours, all our names on it, 'Beloved son,' 'Beloved brother,' and I just couldn't...think he was there.