Body Be Gone Origins Unearthed

Mopping Up Loose Ends Since 1927.



The new owners of Body Be Gone™, the premier body disposal business in the world, are trying to uncover the lost history of the franchise. We know the business started in 1927, but we don't know where or how. Was it an accident? How did the original owners find their first customer? How did they dispose of the body? Writers of all kinds were invited to help us solve the mystery.



Twenty stories ranging from South Dakota to Hollywood, Chicago to Mississippi, take the reader on a fascinating study of human nature. A butler, a sarcophagus, and award-winning apples all make an appearance in this compilation of darkly humorous origin stories of a very unusual business.