Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living

Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life as a Casketeer reveals how Francis and Kaiora grew up in families that had few possessions but were rich with love and tikanga, and how they came to work in their often misunderstood profession. It's also a book about the Maori world view and traditional funeral customs. The Tipenes make death feel less mysterious and life feel more precious. But most of all, Life as a Casketeer is a love story - for whanau, for culture and for each other. It is full of joy and sorrow, tears and laughter.

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Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living

Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life as a Casketeer reveals how Francis and Kaiora grew up in families that had few possessions but were rich with love and tikanga, and how they came to work in their often misunderstood profession. It's also a book about the Maori world view and traditional funeral customs. The Tipenes make death feel less mysterious and life feel more precious. But most of all, Life as a Casketeer is a love story - for whanau, for culture and for each other. It is full of joy and sorrow, tears and laughter.

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Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living

Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living

Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living

Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living

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Overview

Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life as a Casketeer reveals how Francis and Kaiora grew up in families that had few possessions but were rich with love and tikanga, and how they came to work in their often misunderstood profession. It's also a book about the Maori world view and traditional funeral customs. The Tipenes make death feel less mysterious and life feel more precious. But most of all, Life as a Casketeer is a love story - for whanau, for culture and for each other. It is full of joy and sorrow, tears and laughter.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781775541486
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 01/19/2021
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.06(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.42(d)

About the Author

Francis and Kaiora Tipene are the proprietors of Tipene Funerals, a New Zealand funeral business based in Onehunga and Henderson, Auckland. Both hail from Northland, New Zealand - Francis from Pawarenga, Kaiora from Kaitaia. The now married couple met at Maori Teacher's Training College before embarking on a life devoted to their passion for helping people at times of great need.

In 2018 they starred in the first season of what The Spinoff called 'the greatest local comedy of 2018', The Casketeers, now in its fourth season.

Francis is a graduate of the WelTec Funeral Directors course and started in the industry over 15 years ago, working as duty driver in Auckland. Kaiora is also a qualified funeral director.


Francis and Kaiora Tipene are the proprietors of Tipene Funerals, a New Zealand funeral business based in Onehunga and Henderson, Auckland. Both hail from Northland, New Zealand - Francis from Pawerenga, Kaiora from Kaitaia. The now married couple met at Maori Teacher's Training College before embarking on life devoted to their passion for helping people at times of great need.

In 2018 they starred in the first season of what the Spinoff called 'the greatest local comedy of 2018', The Casketeers. A third series of the show will run in 2020.

Francis is a graduate of the WelTec Funeral Directors course and started in the industry over 15 years ago, working as duty driver in Auckland. Kaiora is also a qualified funeral director.

Table of Contents

1 Young Francis 3

2 Growing up fast 21

3 Francis and Kaiora 39

4 A future in funerals 59

5 Your top five questions 77

6 The care of the living 93

7 The care of the dead 109

8 Post-mortems and paperwork 123

9 When things go wrong 153

10 Losing Luke 167

11 The Casketeers 183

12 Public life 201

13 The supporting cast 215

14 Two types of tangi 225

15 An unveiling and a revelation 249

16 Whanau first 273

17 Prepare to die 301

18 And when I die 315

Glossary 323

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