Heather Kadar captures the work of Joan and Marlo Bunker, funeral facilitators, who help people in need.

Erika Preuss captures the work of David Brennan, a funeral home director at Hobbs Funeral Home.

Mira Ptacin highlights the work of David Brennan, a funeral home director at Hobbs Funeral Home. Ptacin speaks to Brennan about his profession and the various job functions at a funeral home.

Heather Kadar captures the work of Joan and Marlo Bunker, funeral facilitators, who help people in need.

In order to offer a practical way to bury loved ones, Cedar Brook Burial Ground greatly reduces the cost of an average funeral, causing people in Maine to rethink funeral traditions. Molly Jean Bennett investigates how this type of burial functions, and the radical topic of home funerals by speaking to two Mainers who buried a loved one on their own terms.

Conceived to counteract the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church, a church that protests military funerals, the Patriot Guard Riders are comprised of veterans and people who have family serving in the military. Kelly Christian captures the work of the Patriot Guard Riders in Maine and their experiences with attending funerals and coping with death.

Offering a way for individuals to have a natural and affordable burial, green cemeteries have allowed for the tradition of burials to change. Grace Mendenhall documents the work Chuck Lakin, Joe Watson, and Joyce Foley have done for funerals.

Morrell and Judie York, two funeral directors, are based in Portland and work at the Independent Death Care Chapel. They discuss the services and arrangements that they provide for families of the deceased, as well as their personal history.

Conceived to counteract the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church, a church that protests military funerals, the Patriot Guard Riders are comprised of veterans and people who have family serving in the military. Charla Hudlow highlights the work of the Patriot Guard Riders in Maine and their experiences with attending funerals and coping with death.

Volunteering to care for the dead in Portland's Jewish community, Sheera LaBelle performs the ancient ritual of Tahara. Casey Gordon captures the work done at the Jewish Funeral Home.

In order to help people accept death as a natural and unavoidable part of life, Chuck Lakin crafts coffins for people to keep at home. Julia Henderson documents the work that Lakin does designing coffins and how they serve various functions within a home.

As a mortician in training, Mark Cevoli spends a lot of time with dead bodies. Kalila Holt profiles Cevoli's time in training, and what it is like being young and working so closely with death.