Body Quote by Ambrose Bierce

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

— Ambrose Bierce

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

— James Runcie

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

— Alison Bechdel

“But don’t the wights get caught?” I said. “I mean, if they’re helping murder people, you’d think—” “Some do,” Emma said. “Wager you’ve heard…

— Ransom Riggs

“The gravedigger knew a fine trick. When the worms looked unhappy he would leave his place in the mausoleum and go up into the…

— L. Joseph Shosty

SKELETON: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

— Nikhil Saluja

The mortician interviewing the corpses

— Eugene McCarthy

“They called us resurrectionists, grave robbers.”

— E.B. Hudspeth

“Of course, the cadavers, in life, donated themselves freely to this fate, and the language surrounding the bodies in front of us soon changed…

— Paul Kalanithi

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

— Ambrose Bierce

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune…

— Jessica Mitford

“The doctors removed my wasteland exterior by debriding me, scraping away the charred flesh. they brought in tanks of liquid nitrogen containing skin recently…

— Andrew Davidson