Every summer, first-year medical students from throughout Maryland gather with family members of people who donated their bodies to science.

Read Bob Abernethy's full interview with William Sloane Coffin.

A profile of a man who knows a great deal about poetry and a great deal about funerals. He is Thomas Lynch, writer and mortician, and each of his vocations enriches the other.

Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with author and funeral director Thomas Lynch, followed by an excerpt from his book THE UNDERTAKING: LIFE STUDIES FROM THE DISMAL TRADE.