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Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?: A Funeral Director Reflects on 30 Years of Serving the Living and the Deceased

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I just got my copy,it is a very fascinating look at the business of dying from the prospective of a professional.
A funny approach to a serious subject.
Harry

This is a helpful book if you want to understand what funeral directors do.
It will also help you to begin to understand the complex creature called "the funeral director" where more often than not you find an inflated ego.
The odds are that sometime in your life you will find yourself sitting in a room with a person like Robert D. Webster. This is why in spite of minor problems you should purchase this book.
What attracted me to this book is the title "Does this Mean You'll See me Naked?"
Buy this book. Especially before your first Funeral arrangement conference or before you purchase products upon a death.

This book is so down to earth. If Mr. Webster could expand on more of his life experiences as a funeral director, who knows, the book in itself is almost good enough for a movie. The only missing ingredient is a major plot that will put the chapters together.

Reading this book, if localized and with a plot would give it the spice that it lacks and certainly a book that you may not want to put down until you are done.

Good job.

This book opened my eyes to the funeral business as a whole. I can't believe how much money can be saved. It is sad to think of the funeral homes that capitalize on grief instead of caring for the family. I will check around before I make any commitments.

Mr. Webster's memoirs are so interesting. I can't wait for the next book!

This book contains several stories of the author, Robert D. Webster, experiences of working in the funeral industry. Some are humorous, some are gross, some are even sad, but all are well written. I felt as if Mr. Webster and I were having a conversation instead of me reading a book. Mr. Webster takes such care and compassion when he prepares a body you will find yourself wanting to use his services when you must arrange a funeral. I hope that Mr. Webster has many more memoirs in the works!!

In the first chapter Robert Webster writes about four sister who are at their father funeral-he states "She and the two of the sisters were in fact having sex (and children)with their father." This story if true is called molestation not "SEX" Why would you even put this in a book?


If that isn't offensive enough in the second chapter he states "I have never heard of of a single case of a male funeral home employee raping or having other inappropriate physical contact with a female decedent. I have, however, heard of some sordid tales involving homosexual personnel."

What an offensive statement!! To make such a statement is ignorant and not worth of anyone reading!!

Beyond that you would have to review the rest of this book yourself as I tossed my copy in the garbage!