A Rochdale mum who quit her fashion degree to pursue embalming has said she sees preparing the dead as ‘an honour’.
Rachel Carline, 32, even worked on her own grandfather’s body following his death - an experience she said felt ‘natural’ after caring for him in life.
Drawn to the profession from childhood, she landed an administrative role at a Co-op funeral home in Rochdale after falling ill in her final year of university, but quickly realised that it was embalming that really fascinated her.
