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Hi Patty Everything I say is true. That's what makes it so hilarious for me and I think a lot of other people. No matter how awful our job, there is something fuinny that happens. I must be related to Billy Connelly, being Scots. Worked in an undertakers in one of my past careers. Thats another load of stories. Don't start me off. Well.... Aileen

Some years ago now I was out to supper with a group of friends,and one of them was a surgeon.He was telling a story about a mutual friend whose wife had died before a due date on her insurance policy,meaning that a great deal of money would be lost.He decided to put his wife in the freezer in the cellar and when the time was right thaw her out and have a Dr friend come round to sign a death cert. He did exactly that The Dr. friend was not so obliging though and arranged a post mortem.One of the questions riased by the coroner was why did the wife have fresh strawberries in her stomach.To which the husbands Dr friend replied in all innocense'They did have a deep freeze in the cellar' At the time ,40 yrs ago, when this true story was told,ordinary folk did not have deep freezes,neither did we have access to out of season fruit via the great supermarket chains as we do today.So the story had much more impact-Rose

I was at Bristol university.Friends at BRI were dissecting a corpse with the windows open onto a court yard below.The dustmen were collecting in the yard.There was cheerful banter going on between the students and the dustmen.'Give us a HAND. One dustman shouted They did. Rose