Over Our Dead Bodies Quotes

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. —GEORGE ELIOT”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“The embalming process essentially fixes the tissues in such a way that after embalming a person is “frozen” in a certain position. To achieve this, during the embalming a prosthesis is needed to hold the flaccid tissue in position until it fixates.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“You show me a funeral director that makes you sit on vinyl and I’ll show you someone who’s about to go out of business.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“You never know who you’re going to run into in life, or who is going to change the course of it. It can happen in the supermarket or at a . . . funeral.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“I find myself seeing all my friends at funerals. That’s the only time I catch up. Must be a sign of our age.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“A funeral home is a mighty still place at night. Mighty still. The families that live in them will tell you, “Yeah, it’s a nice quiet place to live.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“A funeral celebrant is someone certified in performing a secular service that focuses on the individual’s life rather than the liturgy that a religious service will follow.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“An epitaph is an inscription on a monument that tells a little something about the person buried there.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“For clarification purposes, a mausoleum is a building that has several crypts, or “slots,” within it depending on the size of the mausoleum, while an aboveground crypt (depending whether it is single or double) is almost like a box sitting on the ground for one or two caskets. In N’Awlins they put the body in the crypt until another family member needs it. At which point they then rake the bones out, put them in an ossuary, or special place for bones, which is oftentimes in the crypt itself, destroy the casket, and re-use the crypt. A family can use the same crypt space for generations.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

“A memorial park is a cemetery where there are no upright headstones; all the markers are flush with the ground, giving the appearance of lush, undeveloped land.”
― Ken McKenzie, Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid