{"id":87555,"date":"2007-05-27T00:18:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-final-curtain\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T07:04:02","slug":"the-final-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-final-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"The final curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe undertaker Martyn Ginder has dealt with the realities of death for decades – so why is he convinced he’ll live forever? Leo Benedictus finds out.How ironic, is the first thought that flashes through my mind, that there should be a plastic model of an arm inside a mortuary fridge. It takes a full minute, while undertaker Martyn Ginder continues the tour of his premises, for me to realise that actually the waxy, yellow object hanging from a shelf in his fridge was probably not made of plastic at all. It’s not a shocking idea that I’ve just seen a body, but it’s strange nevertheless.Ginder (pronounced Jinder), is the founder of MK Ginder & Sons in Watford, Hertfordshire and, as he explains, his first hands-on encounter with a corpse was a bit more traumatic. “Rigor mortis had set in and as I let go of the arm it stayed there, pointing upwards,” he says. “I moved down to lift the feet up, and that little bit of movement made the arm go creeeeak… slap, and it fell back down. It’s been 30-odd years since it happened, but I can remember it as if it was yesterday. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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