Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?: Field Notes from a Funeral Director

Webster, Robert

ISBN 10: 1402250835 / ISBN 13: 9781402250835

Published by Sourcebooks (edition Reprint), 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?: Field Notes from a Funeral Director
• Publisher: Sourcebooks (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402250835
• ISBN 13: 9781402250835
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies?

With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and quirky stories gleaned from a life lived around death. Webster tackles those embarrassing questions we all have about what really goes on bhind the scenes when you've left this world:

• Strange things people put in caskets
• The biggest rip-offs in the business
• The crazy things that happen to a body after death
• Lime, waz, and other ways to hide the truth
• The most important thing an undertaker does
• How to avoid the high-pressure funeral parlor
• What that's not a coffin the body is resting in

About the Author

Robert Webster has been a licensed embalmer and funeral director in Ohio since 1977. He attended the Cincinnati College of Mortuary and opened the Webster Funeral Home in Fairfield, Ohio, in 2001.