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Curiosity Piqued? Here are some great resources!

These selected readings can help answer your questions concerning death, dying, bereavement, cemeteries, embalming, and the supernatural!

Here are a few reviews and links to the books I've found to be fascinating and helpful.

At the bottom of this page, you'll find a list of suggested books. Browse the categories to the left of the screen below to find books about the humor, science, emotion, fact, and fiction surrounding death.

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Cemetery Stories

The book Cemetery Stories, was written by Katherine Ramsland and published in 2001. Promising to reveal “embalming secrets and the life of a corpse after death,” I plowed through the paragraphs to glean every last drop of insight from the pages, wondering if I, a licensed funeral director and embalmer, would discover something I didn’t already know. I certainly wasn’t disappointed.

This book looks at death from an investigative reporter’s standpoint- the ghost stories and urban legends dripping with the curiosity shared by all outsiders. Reading Cemetery Stories helped me shed my black mortician’s cloak and regress to a time of naïveté and ignorance about death. Ramsland’s words enabled me to experience the morbid intrigues through fresh, fascinated eyes. This book explores everything from unusual tombs, to famous murders, to creepy childhood nursery rhymes, to the goings on of a “Body Farm.”

Well-crafted with evidence of the gruesome, the frightening, and the peaceful qualities of death, this book is sure to entertain and settle any lingering doubts you had about those tales and legends you've heard. It’s a great read for “beginners” (meaning those with limited experience with dead bodies… which is almost everyone!). You will search your own soul and this book will have you questioning your preconceived notions of the life after death. Are you a believer? You’ll know soon enough.