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by Todd Harra; Ken McKenzie

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When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy.

From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell--and a special way of telling them.

In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why death sometimes calls for duct tape.

Enjoy tales of the dearly departed spending eternity naked from the waist down and getting bottled and corked--in a wine bottle. And then meet their families--the weepers, the punchers, the stolidly dignified, and the ones who deliver their dead mother in a pickup truck.

If there's one thing undertakers know, it's that death drives people crazy. These are the best "bodies of work" from America's darkest profession.

"Sick, funny, and brilliant! I love this book." --Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of They Bite! and Rot & Ruin

"As unpredictable and lively as a bunch of drunks at a New Orleans funeral."
--Joe R. Lansdale

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  • Title Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
  • Author Todd Harra; Ken McKenzie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 4th Printing
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Citadel Press, New York
  • Publication date 2010-05-01
  • ISBN 9780806531793 / 0806531797
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 6.34 x 0.76 in (20.93 x 16.10 x 1.93 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States, Undertakers and undertaking - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009937076
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Todd Harra is the author of several books about the funeral profession. He is a fourth-generation funeral director and works for the family business in Wilmington, Delaware. In addition to being a funeral director and embalmer, Harra is a certified postmortem reconstructionist and cremationist. For more information, visit toddharra.com or connect on Facebook @toddharraauthor.

Kenneth McKenzie first became interested in the death care industry at the age of twelve, following his father's suicide. He has been a funeral director for 22 years and a funeral home owner for 14. In 2007 Ken created and published the well received Men of Mortuaries calendar, also the inspiration for this book, to benefit Breast Cancer Awareness and received California's Outstanding Funeral Director of the Year award. He resides in Long Beach. Please visit www.menofmortuaries.com.

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