Over Our Dead Bodies

Undertakers Lift the Lid

By: Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie

Narrated by: 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.

A+ sequel

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

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