When I wrote the first draft of When We Died in 2016, I focused predominantly on the experience of the woman at the centre of the play and her story. That draft touched on the character's love of her job but was very much about the cosmetic stages of the embalming process; at one stage I imagined her as being more of a make up artist to the deceased rather than an embalmer. I may have got a little overexcited by the fact that Whoopi Goldberg used to be one... 

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