health due to reduced levels of stress, religious communities differed markedly in health depending on their diet. To support this, he cited a study by Saile, who took the blood pressure of 100 Carthusian, Cistercian and Carmelite monks, all meat abstainers and found it considerably lower than a similar number of Benedictine monks - meat eaters. Any monk that dies at Mount St Bernard will end up in the monastery's communal coffin. The coffin comes out for funerals and is then returned to the abbey's attic. In accordance with Trappist burial rites, monks are buried without a coffin. The hood of the cowl is folded over the face and the body is lowered into the ground where it is received into the arms of an infirmarian, who arranges it in a final loving service. The abbot places the first shovelful of earth on the body, after which his brothers fill the grave by shoveling earth onto the body's feet, letting it gradually encompass the body, after which all withdraw. Life at the Abbey was briefly shown in Richard Dawkins' 2012 television programme Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life. In 2019, the Abbey was the subject of a full-length documentary by Leicester filmmaker, Nick Hamer, entitled Outside the City. The documentary was put together over a three-year period and Hamer was given unprecedented access to the monastery, which included a week living alongside the monks, following their daily observations. The documentary (with a 2020 date) was shown on BBC Four in March 2021 under the title Brotherhood: the Inner Life of Monks. On 13 March 2022, the Abbey was featured in a BBC Songs of Praise episode, presented by Kate Bottley. Mount St Bernard Abbey maintains an ecumenical link with the Anglican Cistercians, a dispersed and uncloistered order of single, celibate and married men that is officially recognized within the Church of England. According to a BBC article of 2005, the monastery had a full quota of 35 brothers, with approximately 50 applications to join the monastery every year. It was noted that in the region of 5000 guests stayed at the monastery annually. Guests can stay up to five days and there is no charge, although the abbey encourages visitors to make a contribution toward the running of the guest house. By 2021, it was a community of 25 men, more than half of whom are over 80 years