All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

In this fascinating exploration of the businesses, jobs, and infrastructure that surround the end of life, author Hayley Campbell talks to morticians, embalmers, detectives, crime scene cleaners, executioners, and more to understand the complexities of working with death as a way of life. Campbell interrogates our culture's hidden assumptions and unhealthy postures towards death, ultimately revealing what we lose by alienating ourselves from something so intrinsically connected to life: its end. (Short Discount)