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Over Our Dead Bodies

Undertakers Lift the Lid

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Over Our Dead Bodies

By: Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie
Narrated by: Reay Kaplan, Gregory St. John, Brian Troxell
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With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach's Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission to embrace our morbid curiosity. From the authors of Mortuary Confidential.

Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry....

I had lost the hearse!

From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother's wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who has to make it all go as planned - even if it doesn't.

©2014 Kenneth McKenzie and Todd Harra (P)2021 Tantor Anthropology Death & Dying Sociology Comedy Heartfelt Witty
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being in the medical profession and having a deceased undertaker in the family, I thought yes here we go. a light hearted sincere tasteful glimpse at the real side of death. don't get me wrong I had a giggle and did relate to several stories but I was also a little disappointed in the book from the view of attitude. vibe. guess it's an American thing. we are Australian.
clergy wanting to shoot a squirrel in a funeral chapel with oldies near by really is not for me. all creatures great and small kind of stuff . having said this I could relate to the sherrif pastor relationship .thanks.

left me a little cold

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