Research Catalog

Title

• Does this mean you'll see me naked? : field notes from a funeral director / by Robert D. Webster.

Author

Webster, Robert D.

Publication

Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

240 p.; 18 cm.

Summary

With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director and embalmer Robert Webster shares empathetic yet entertainingly quirky stories about the funeral business. He answers those embarrassing questions foremost in our minds and provides readers with behind-the scenes stories of what really goes on after you're dead with both empathy and humor that satisfies readers curious about the oddities of death. What kind of person becomes a funeral director? How difficult is the art of making Grandma look like Grandma again? What's the biggest ripoff in the business?

Subject

• Funeral Rites
• Funeral homes > Ohio
• Funeral rites and ceremonies > Ohio
• Mortuary Practice
• Ohio
• Ohio
• Undertakers and undertaking > Ohio > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Anecdotes.

Note

• Originally published: Bloomington, IN : iUniverse, 2008.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Why Would You Want to Hang Out with Dead People? -- ch. 2 Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked? -- ch. 3 Moving the Body -- ch. 4 Morbidly Obese -- ch. 5 Maggots, Wax, and the Most Important Job -- ch. 6 I Wonder Why You Called Us... -- ch. 7 She Is Survived By... -- ch. 8 I Need to Be Up Front -- I Was His Favorite Cousin! -- ch. 9 Those We Leave Behind -- ch. 10 That's a Nice Casket You Have There -- ch. 11 Let's Keep Dad on the Dresser -- ch. 12 As Soon as We Sell Dad's House, We'll Pay Your Bill -- ch. 13 I Just Switched the Heads, and Other Sketchy Practices -- ch. 14 Carpetbagger Conglomerate -- ch. 15 Six Feet Under -- How Real Is It?.

ISBN

9781402250835 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011002336

OCLC

679922519

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library