All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work by Amazonundefined
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A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the peoplemorticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executionerswho 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, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what were so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.Through Campbells incisive and candid interviews with these people who see death every day, she asks: Why would someone choose this kind of life? Does it change you as a person? And are we missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? A dazzling work of cultural criticism,
All the Living and the Dead
weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death.
O autorze
Hayley Campbell is an author, broadcaster, and journalist. Her work has appeared in
WIRED, The Guardian, New Statesman, Empire, GQ,
and more. Her books include
All the Living and the Dead
and
The Art of Neil Gaiman
. She lives in London with her cat, Ned.
Product information
- Długość wersji drukowanej:268 str.
- Język:Angielski
- Wydawca:St Martins Pr
- Data publikacji:16 sierpnia 2022
- Wymiary:16.64 x 3.3 x 24.38 cm
- ISBN-10:1250281849
- ISBN-13:978-1250281845
- Author:Hayley Campbell
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