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

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

Hayley Campbell

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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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, ou...

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informative 91%
reflective 70%
emotional 62%
dark 57%
challenging 37%
sad 28%
hopeful 20%
inspiring 17%
funny 6%
adventurous 4%
tense 4%
mysterious 1%

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fast 12%

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