Oct. 7, 2022
6: The Funeral (& Other Strange Death Rituals)
Kyle McMahon discusses the writing his Mom's eulogy, going to the viewing, the funeral and the burial.
Then, Kyle talks with Todd Hara, Vice President of McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes and Crematory and best selling author of Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral. They discuss the history of death rituals, how death rituals in America came to be, where the death industry is going and more.
In episode 6 of Death, Grief and Other Sh*t We Don't Discuss, Kyle McMahon discusses the writing his Mom's eulogy, going to the viewing, the funeral and the burial.
Then, Kyle talks with Todd Hara, Vice President of McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes and Crematory and best selling author of Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral. They discuss the history of death rituals, how death rituals in America came to be, where the death industry is going and more.
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Todd Harra
Funeral Director / Author
Todd Harra has over a decade of experience as a licensed funeral director and embalmer, and is a certified postmortem reconstructionist and cremationist. He has cowritten two nonfiction books about the profession, Mortuary Confidential and Over Our Dead Bodies, and is an associate editor for Southern Calls, a renowned journal in the funeral profession. He is the president of the Delaware State Funeral Directors Association and lives in Wilmington, Delaware.
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