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All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation Into the Death Trade by Hayley Campbell

3 reviews

asacco9642's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Genocide, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Body horror, Child death, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Car accident, Chronic illness, Dementia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Blood, Gun violence, Suicide, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, War, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

old_man_niemand's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Gore, and Medical content

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Genocide, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Miscarriage, and Terminal illness

grimmauxillatrix's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Everyone knows about funeral directors, some people know about embalmers, but how many people know about pathologist technologists or bereavement midwives? A very good coverage of the overlooked people and positions in the death industry. 

The author reads the audiobook, and the best parts are where she lets her reading get emotional. Otherwise, her voice is flat, like she's reading a paper in front of her class. She doesn't have a bad voice or an annoying nasality or anything, it just gets a little boring sometimes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Excrement, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Death, Medical content, Drug abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Genocide, Car accident, Chronic illness, Infertility, Blood, and Drug use

Minor: Animal death

THIS BOOK DISCUSSES DEATH, DEAD BODIES AND THE AFTERMATH OF DEATH IN EXPLICIT DETAIL. THE SUBJECT IS HEAVY AND TREATED WITH APPROPRIATE GRAVITY AND RESPECT, BUT IT IS VERY DETAILED. IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU CAN HANDLE LISTENING TO AN UPSETTING STORY ABOUT A DEAD BABY, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK