FRONTLINE The Undertaking Oct 30 @ pbs.org/frontline

Enter the world of Thomas Lynch, a poet and an undertaker, whose family for three generations has cared for both the living and the dead in a small Michigan town. Through the intimate stories of families coming to terms with grief, mortality, and a funeral's rituals, the film illuminates the heartbreak and beauty in the journey taken between the living and the dead when someone dies.

Watch “The Undertaking” on air and online beginning Tuesday, October 30, 2007 on PBS and at http:///www.pbs.org/frontline .