Roger Grainger was a registered Dramatherapist, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and occasional TV actor. He held a PhD in Sociology from Leeds University as well as Doctorates in Theology and Implicit Religion, and worked as a psychiatric chaplain for the Stanley Royd Hospital in Wakefield. He was also one of the founders of the National Funeral College and was the author of several books.
The refusal to die; the fear of the dead; the unburied; the shape of death; the rite of passage. Appendix: the principle motives of the funeral.
