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Over My Dead Body
- Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries
- Narrado por: Will Tulin
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A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead
The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville’s lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead.
Melville’s Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it. Cemeteries have given birth to landscape architecture and famous parks, as well as influenced architectural styles. They’ve inspired and motivated some of our greatest poets and authors—Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson. They’ve been used as political tools to shift the country’s discourse and as important symbols of the United States' ambition and reach.
But they are changing and fading. Embalming and burial is incredibly toxic, and while cremations have just recently surpassed burials in popularity, they’re not great for the environment either. Over My Dead Body explores everything—history, sustainability, land use, and more—and what it really means to memorialize.
Locales visited in Over My Dead Body
Shawsheen Cemetery–Bedford, Massachusetts
The 1607 Burial Ground–Historic Jamestowne, Virginia
Burial Hill–Plymouth, Massachusetts
Colonial Jewish Burial Ground–Newport, Rhode Island
Monticello’s African American Graveyard–Charlottesville, Virginia
Mount Auburn Cemetery–Cambridge, Massachusetts
Green-Wood Cemetery–Brooklyn, New York
Laurel Grove Cemetery–Savannah, Georgia
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery–Concord, Massachusetts
Central Park–New York, New York
Gettysburg National Cemetery–Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Arlington National Cemetery–Arlington, Virginia
Woodlawn Cemetery–Bronx, New York
Boothill Graveyard–Tombhill, Arizona
Forest Lawn Memorial-Park–Glenwood, California
The Chapel of the Chimes–Oakland, California
Hollywood Forever Cemetery–Los Angeles, California
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- The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
- De: Dr. Anita Hannig
- Narrado por: Linda Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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In this groundbreaking book, Anita Hannig brings us into the lives of ordinary Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to set the terms of their own death. Faced with a terminal diagnosis and unbearable suffering, they decide to seek medical assistance in dying—a legal option now available to one in five Americans. The Day I Die tackles one of the most urgent social issues of our time: how to restore dignity and meaning to the dying process in the age of high-tech medicine.
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Honest, Revealing
- De Mark L en 08-26-22
De: Dr. Anita Hannig
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Without a Prayer
- The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult
- De: Susan Ashline
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar - he'd practiced witchcraft, conspired to murder his parents, and committed unspeakable crimes. The confessions earned him a brutal beating by a gang of angry church members, including his parents and sister. Lucas was brought to the hospital dead, awakening the sleepy community of Chadwicks, New York, to the horror that had been lurking next door. Nine members of Lucas' church would eventually find themselves facing murder-related charges. But how did they get to that point? And what made Lucas confess?
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The Depravity of the Human Soul
- De J. Miller en 01-31-20
De: Susan Ashline
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Boys Enter the House
- The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind
- De: David Nelson
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an upstanding citizen, active in local politics and charities, famous for his themed parties and appearances as Pogo the Clown. But in the winter of 1978-79, he became known as one of many so-called “sex murderers” who had begun gaining notoriety in the random brutality of the 1970s.
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What we really needed to know about the Gacy murders.
- De Aaron en 03-02-24
De: David Nelson
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- De: Phil Jaekl
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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In Out Cold, science writer Phil Jaekl chronicles the underappreciated story of human innovation with cold, from Ancient Egypt, where it was used to treat skin irritations, to 18th-century London, where scientists used it in their first explorations of suspended animation. Throughout history, physicians have used cold to innovate life extension, enable distant space missions, and explore consciousness.
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Left cold.
- De Lars en 09-12-22
De: Phil Jaekl
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Cannibalism
- De: Bill Schutt
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, exploring exciting new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mothers' skin.
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Ruined it at the end
- De Kimberly Ames en 12-07-17
De: Bill Schutt
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Goodbye Hello
- Processing Grief and Understanding Death Through the Paranormal
- De: Adam Berry
- Narrado por: Adam Berry
- Duración: 7 h
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Death affects us all—not just at the end of our lives, but every day. And yet, it’s one of the most feared and misunderstood things we face. But what if there was a way to know more and use that knowledge to inform our daily lives? The first of its kind, Goodbye Hello blends supernatural research with psychology to explore death and grief. Written by paranormal investigator and star of Kindred Spirits and Ghost Hunters Adam Berry, this book will not only entertain but offer comfort to those struggling to come to terms with loss, grief, and the end of life.
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Entertaining and informative
- De Rebecca en 09-27-23
De: Adam Berry
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The Day I Die
- The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
- De: Dr. Anita Hannig
- Narrado por: Linda Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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In this groundbreaking book, Anita Hannig brings us into the lives of ordinary Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to set the terms of their own death. Faced with a terminal diagnosis and unbearable suffering, they decide to seek medical assistance in dying—a legal option now available to one in five Americans. The Day I Die tackles one of the most urgent social issues of our time: how to restore dignity and meaning to the dying process in the age of high-tech medicine.
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Honest, Revealing
- De Mark L en 08-26-22
De: Dr. Anita Hannig
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Without a Prayer
- The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult
- De: Susan Ashline
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar - he'd practiced witchcraft, conspired to murder his parents, and committed unspeakable crimes. The confessions earned him a brutal beating by a gang of angry church members, including his parents and sister. Lucas was brought to the hospital dead, awakening the sleepy community of Chadwicks, New York, to the horror that had been lurking next door. Nine members of Lucas' church would eventually find themselves facing murder-related charges. But how did they get to that point? And what made Lucas confess?
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The Depravity of the Human Soul
- De J. Miller en 01-31-20
De: Susan Ashline
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Dark Archives
- A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
- De: Megan Rosenbloom
- Narrado por: Justis Bolding
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy - the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering.
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Fascinating
- De Abbey Pflegl en 11-21-21
De: Megan Rosenbloom
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Data Baby
- My Life in a Psychological Experiment
- De: Susannah Breslin
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of 128 children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year psychological experiment that predicts who she and her cohort will grow up to be. Decades later, trapped in an abusive marriage to a man with a violent history and battling breast cancer, she starts to wonder how growing up under a microscope shaped the person she became and her life choices. Is she the narrator of the story of her life, or is something else?
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There should be a law. Oh wait there is.
- De all our stories en 05-31-24
De: Susannah Breslin
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A Light in the Dark
- Surviving More Than Ted Bundy
- De: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. But Bundy wasn’t my first brush with death, and he wasn’t my last.
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The strength to persevere
- De Jude Garcia en 02-04-24
De: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, y otros
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Lay Them to Rest
- On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
- De: Laurah Norton
- Narrado por: Laurah Norton
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to “getting the bad guy” behind bars, your best chance of success boils down to the strength of your evidence—and the forensic science used to obtain it. Beyond the silver screen, forensic science has been used for decades to help solve even the most tough-to-crack cases.
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Enjoyable author, but not my style
- De Anonymous User en 11-21-23
De: Laurah Norton
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Waco Rising
- David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
- De: Kevin Cook
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard the full story.
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Thought Provoking
- De HankieG en 05-28-23
De: Kevin Cook
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All the Living and the Dead
- From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
- De: Hayley Campbell
- Narrado por: Hayley Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.
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Excellent
- De Noelle en 09-01-22
De: Hayley Campbell
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The Unclaimed
- Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
- De: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
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Title is deceiving
- De Bitzy en 05-04-24
De: Pamela Prickett, y otros
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- De Kathy in CA en 07-05-18
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In the Mouth of the Wolf
- A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
- De: Katherine Corcoran
- Narrado por: Gigi Saul Guerrero
- Duración: 12 h
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Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing once again, she was bludgeoned to death in her bathroom. The message was clear: No journalist in Mexico was safe.
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fascinating story ruined by bad narration
- De soup cook en 12-27-22
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Tremors in the Blood
- Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector
- De: Amit Katwala
- Narrado por: Paul Bellantoni
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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As new forms of lie detection gain momentum in the present day, Tremors in the Blood reveals the incredible truth behind the creation of the polygraph, through gripping true-crime cases featuring explosive gunfights, shocking twists, and high-stakes courtroom drama. Touching on psychology, technology, and the science of the truth, Tremors in the Blood is a vibrant, atmospheric thriller and a warning from history: beware what you believe.
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Incredible Book
- De Christine en 01-04-24
De: Amit Katwala
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Gory Details
- De: Erika Engelhaupt
- Narrado por: Mari Weiss
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National Geographic's popular Gory Details blog takes us on a fascinating journey through an astonishing new reality. Blending humor and journalism in the tradition of Mary Roach, acclaimed science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bodies and our universe.
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Feels like old school Discovery channel
- De Anonymous User en 02-15-23
De: Erika Engelhaupt
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Nine Pints
- A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
- De: Rose George
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo: menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event.
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- De Jonathan Malzone en 03-03-19
De: Rose George
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Over My Dead Body
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- KJ
- 03-05-23
excellent read!
I loved each featured cemetery as a driving force behind each chapter and i thought the entire thing flowed well and had such interesting stories.
My only complaint is in Chapter 12, where there was some poor editing and the reader repeats one section like six times. Otherwise, I thought the production was great.
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- schalkam@tiffin.edu
- 06-19-24
Great History, but made it political
Great History, but made it political at times.
More editing needs done, especially Chapter 12
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-27-22
thought provoking
Interesting and thought provoking as long as you are comfortable with the subject. Not gruesome but realistic presentation.
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- TeaTravler
- 09-18-23
Death should be something we talk about
I enjoyed this book. The visiting of cemeteries is a small part of our travels, but we don’t usually know the history of them. The use of focusing on an individual cemetery to travel us through time was engaging. I learned a lot and think we should talk about our death and where we want to be to make it easier on the loved ones we leave behind.
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- Always curious
- 01-04-23
A fascinating book
This book truly unearths facts about cemeteries and burial practices that I have never read or heard. The book kept my attention. A must read.
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- Аmazon Customer
- 06-24-23
Best book I've listened to for a long time...
What an uplifting and fascinating journey through many of our country's final resting places. I am thinking about cemeteries in an entirely new light now, and definitely give a second glance and a smile whenever I pass one. This book was also beautifully read by the narrator. He was so personable and inviting. 5 stars all around! --Erica Snipes (wife to the account holder listed)
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- Geoffrey Heath
- 04-03-23
Excellent read on a seldom discussed topic
The author’s take on a subject that is seldom, if ever discussed is very thought provoking. His narrative is filled with interesting back stories, facts and insights presented in very entertaining fashion. The presentation keeps the book moving at a fast, entertaining pace that will create a memorable experience for all listeners. A must listen!
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- Stacey Woodall
- 01-28-24
great read
Loved learning the history! Recommend to all who want to learn more about out great Nation. pick this book up
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- Anonymous User
- 02-28-24
The author's ability to cater to a wide audience- especially since this is a topic many would rather avoid.
This is an eganging book that makes an overwhelming topic easier for American audiences to digest! I enjoyed the author's bits of humor throughout each chapter.
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- Joe
- 04-18-23
25% History 75% Social Commentary
This book is endless lecturing and social commentary with a side of history. If you're into that, you'll probably like it. If you wanted the history of American cemeteries, give it a pass.
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