Over Our Dead Bodies

Undertakers Lift the Lid

De: Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie

Narrado por: Reay Kaplan, Gregory St. John, Brian Troxell

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

loved it

gained information i didn't know and got some pretty good insight on death...I have shared some of the things I have learned with others...I would and will recommend this book...

Great stories!

Very moving and humorous, like listening to a friend tell their tales about life and their career. I loved it!

Storytelling

Great book. Love the stories. Would recommend to my friends. Hope to read more on the subject.

New perspective on death

What a great book ! I enjoyed the interesting stories. The end touched my heart & I love the honesty in this book

Love this listen!

Even if you don’t feel like the death care industry is something you find interesting this is such a worthwhile read. Gives you faith in humanity & reminds us to appreciate life, not take our lives (or deaths too seriously) and that we are all connected by this universal experience