Angie McLachlan

Angie McLachlan is a Retired Embalmer. They create training dummies, here on The Isle of Portland, which are designed and built to teach professionals from all aspects of Death and Dying, how to work with people after death. The Ichabodies Death Dummies™ demonstrate complex aspects, medical, circumstantial, and forensic… they are works of art as well as tools to educate and inform. When Angie retired from caring for real people, they gifted the tools of their trade to colleagues… somehow, the apron that features in this exhibition was saved and placed in a wooden box with a ribbon around it… the memories embodied in the rubber were too hardto part with. For this exhibition, the apron and one stainless steel instrument have found their way into a tiny suitcase. This small brown case usually holds precious items that once belonged to the oldest person Angie has ever embalmed – her grandmother Phyllis, who died aged 104.5. Angie has thought about death every day for the past 34 years, the deaths of family members, close friends, colleagues, loved ones, and, of course, their own death. What to take on that final journey was a challenge. Angie takes precious memories and much love. 

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