The Week contest: Corpse actor

This week's question: After a year of posting TikToks in which he pretended to be dead, a Kentucky restaurant manager was recently hired to play a corpse on CSI: Vegas. What should he title a motivational memoir about achieving his morbid dream?

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Cat title

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THE WINNER: "How to Be Some Body"

Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia

SECOND PLACE: "Working Stiff''

Matthew Lane, Emporia, Kansas

THIRD PLACE: "Waiting to Inhale"

Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Good as Dead"

Joan Kummer, Orlando, Florida

"Dead Man Talking"

Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York

"Paid to Rest"

Bev Rose, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

"Abracadaver"

Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"Death Star"

Michael Grossman, San Dimas, California

"Getting Started as a Dearly Departed"

Ivan Kershner, Salem, South Carolina

"My Wife Says I'm a Natural"

Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts

"Death Becomes Me"

Mary Fillingham, Monroe, New York

"Each Day I Die a Little"

Glenda Palmer, Center Valley, Pennsylvania

"Till Death Gets the Part"

Russell Proetz, Longview, Texas

"Always Say Die"

Daniel Grossman, Peekskill, New York

"My Die Is Cast"

Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts

"How to Blossom Playing Possum"

Dave Howe, Avon, Connecticut

"Stay the Corpse"

Dan Savitt, Somerville, Massachusetts