Published: January 26, 2019
Francis and Kaiora Tipene started in the funeral business with nothing but passion. Now they’re introducing the world to a warmer, funnier side of death
It had just gone midnight when Kaiora Tipene touched her first dead body, after receiving a call from her overwhelmed husband to assist with dressing cadavers.
It was Francis’s sudden and startling passion for the funeral industry that had brought the young couple from the isolated town of Kaitaia, in rural Northland, to New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland. With a one-year-old baby in tow, the Tipenes had no knowledge of the industry, only a vague sense that death could be done better. They were just 21.
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