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

Great stories!

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

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...

A+ sequel

Great narrator and great story. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I did the first in the series. 10/10

Storytelling

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

I finally decided what I want to be!!

I love the stories of each and every individual!! The stories motivated me to finally choose to go into death care! Thank you

great listen!

I love how the authors really bring you back to the moment with their great storytelling!

Wow what’s this!

I liked his voice and listened to the whole book while I was sleeping that’s one way I can remember things

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

Boring

The author was clearly proud of his calendar but I found the topic extremely boring, and I was annoyed when we kept returning to the topic.