Undertakers wonder what death will be like after Brexit
Michael Leydon carries bodies in his jet-black hearse across Ireland’s invisible border.
Operating from near the town of Cavan in the Republic of Ireland less than three miles from where checkpoints disappeared decades ago, the journey back and forth to the UK province of Northern Ireland has been straight forward and required little paperwork for most of Michael Leydon’s career. He’s now worried that’s about to change dramatically.
Cavan is set to become a frontier town again, right next to what will be the European’s Union new land border with the UK after it leaves. The free movement of corpses is one of the more extreme examples of how Brexit’s seemingly most intractable issue still has to play out regardless of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal with the EU.
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