Could you sit with the dead for a night? In old New England, someone had to spend the darkest part of the night with the deceased, until the mortician arrived in the morning. When his boss 'clapsed' and died from a heart attack, the frightful job of 'dead-sitter' fell to the Foreman, Asa Bitridge, who would spend the bleak hours desperately trying to fend off - THE COLD TOUCH OF DEATH!
