Over Our Dead Bodies:: Undertakers Lift the Lid
- ISBN-10
- 0806536659
- ISBN-13
- 9780806536651
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-06-01
- Publisher
- Citadel
- Authors
- Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie
Description
Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories 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! Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker to guide them through that most difficult of times. Of course, sometimes tradition gets thrown under the bus. 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 must make it all go as planned—even if it doesn’t. Praise for Mortuary Confidential “Outrageous funeral stories, dipped in beauty and morbid humor.” —Caleb Wilde, author of Confessions of a Funeral Director “Curious, wildly honest stories that need to be told, but just not at the dinner table.” —Dana Kollmann, author of Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand “As unpredictable and lively as a bunch of drunks at a New Orleans funeral.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Moon Lake “Sick, funny, and brilliant! I love this book.” —Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of They Bite! And Rot & Ruin “These true mortuary tales are poignant—and suddenly, gaspi
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Over Our Dead Bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's Fight for Gun Control
By Simon ChapmanSimon Chapman's book gives an insider's view of the struggle for gun control, highlighting the public discourse between shooters determined to preserve the right for civilians to bear military-style weapons, and activists dedicated to ...
-
Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb
By Dorothy ThompsonOver Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb
-
Over My Dead Body (William Warwick Novels)
By Jeffrey ArcherThe New York Times bestselling novel – an unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer.
-
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
By Elisabeth BronfenThe argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", ...
-
Over My Dead Body: Eddathorpe Mystery #6
By Raymond FlynnSomeone is blackmailing a local supermarket chain.
-
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
By Thomas W. LaqueurThe Work of the Dead is like a vast canvas in which the reader can somehow see at the same moment the tiny buttons on a frock coat and the curvature of the earth. The book is a moving triumph of scholarship and the historical imagination.
-
Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
By Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzieHis birth had been recorded under the old British-used Julian calendar before the Gregorian calendar became widely used in 1752, and thus, we Americans used the Julian calendar until the British stopped.
-
Over My Dead Body
By Michele BardsleyArriving in the town of Broken Heart, Oklahoma to start a new life with her little daughter, Simone Sweet, a newly turned vampire, finds her undead world rocked by local hunk Braddock Hayes who is the only one who sees her as she really is.
-
Dead Bodies
By James SeligmanThe story is around the illegal sale of Terracotta Army pieces and drug smuggling on a grand scale. The Wu triads are behind the enterprise and dead bodies turn up every where with strange notes with symbols on them.
-
Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
By Kenneth V. IsersonIn our culture, we rarely speak about death -- partly because it is seen as a sort of pornography, shrouded in indecency and immersed in taboos; and partly because we...