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All the living and the dead from embalmers to executioners, an exploration of the people who have made death their life's work
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, w...
| Main Author: | Campbell, Hayley (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The edge of mortality: Funeral director
- The gift: Director of anatomical services
- Click your fingers and they turn to stone: Death mask sculptor
- Limbo: Disaster victim identification
- The horror: Crime scene cleaner
- Dining with the executioner: Executioner
- None of this is forever: Embalmer
- Love and terror: Anatomical pathology technologist
- Tough mother: Bereavement midwife
- Earth to earth: Gravedigger
- The devil's coachman: Crematorium operator
- The hopeful dead: Cryonics institute.