num_pages: 272
description: Michelle Williams is young and attractive with close family ties a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position she has no idea that her decision to accept will be one of the most momentous of her life. What I didnt realize then she writes was that I was about to start one of the most amazing jobs you can do.To Williams life in the mortuary is neither grim nor frightening. She introduces readers to a host of unique characters: pathologists (many eccentric some utterly crazy) undertakers and the man from the coroners office who sings to her every morning. No two days are alike and while Williamss sensitivity to the dead never wavers her tales from the crypt range from mischievous to downright shocking. Readers wont forget the fitness fanatic run over while doing nighttime push-ups on the road the man so large he had to be carted in via refrigerated truck or the guide dog who led his owner onto railway tracksand left him there. The indomitable Williams never bats an eye even as she is confronteddailywith situations that would leave the rest of us speechless.
language: English
title: Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
publisher: Soft Skull