How the world’s first ‘punk undertaker’ is redefining funerals as we know them
An outdoor service for one of Rupert’s clients
Rupert Callender is not your usual funeral director. You won’t find him trying to upsell mahogany coffins from a catalogue while juggling appointments with the bereaved. And much of the rigmarole surrounding the rituals of modern death frankly appals him.
“Quite often, all these add-ons come at the expense of the content,” he says. “But for me it is all about content, and a good…