(Read Now) All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work Books
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A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people?embalmers, detectives, crime scene cleaners, executioners?who work in it and what led them there. Embarking on a three-year trip across the US and the UK, journalist Hayley Campbell?inspired by her longtime fascination with death, thanks to a childhood surrounded by her father?s Jack the Ripper cartoons?met with a variety of professionals in the death industry to see how they work.Along the way, Campbell encountered funeral directors, embalmers, a man who dissects cadavers for anatomy students, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending 62 lives. She sat in a van with old gravediggers who have already dug their own graves. She raked out bones and ash with a man who works in a crematorium. She dressed a dead man for his coffin, held a brain at an autopsy, visited a cryonics facility in Michigan, and went for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective. Through Campbell?s prodding, reverent
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