Discussing Last Rites with Todd Harra

Death and Tea

In this episode, we speak with Todd Harra, co-author of the Amazon bestselling books Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt and Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid, as well as the Clip Undertaker mystery series, Grave Matters and Patient Zero, and more recently the funeral history book, Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral. He works for the family business, McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes and Crematory (www.mccreryandharra.com) in Wilmington, Delaware. He is a funeral director, embalmer, post-mortem reconstructionist, and cremationist. Cricket and Todd discuss the history and future of funeral/burial services in America and how death doula’s have come to play a role in serving the spiritual needs of “the Nones”.