What we can learn from death for life Christoph Kuckelkorn, master undertaker from Cologne, leads a "double life": On the one hand, he manages one of the oldest funeral homes in Germany, and at the same time he acts as president of the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee. What sounds like a contradiction means a unity for him. Like hardly anyone else, he experiences the interplay between happiness and sadness, exuberance and despair every day. Death and life - Christoph Kuckelkorn moves effortlessly between both worlds, sometimes within just a few hours: in the morning the preparation of a funeral, at noon a meeting of the festival committee, in the afternoon a funeral conversation with bereaved relatives, in the evening a ceremonial meeting. His profession teaches him every day anew how fragile our existence is, how suddenly everything can change. And then wake. For him, the simultaneity of feelings is not a theory, but a daily practice that has taught him a lot about life. He propagates life in the here and now. And practices it. As a wanderer between worlds, Christoph Kuckelkorn has written his gripping biography and a large and inspiring book about the meaning and value of life.