All the living and the dead : an investigation of the people who make death their life's work
Campbell, Hayley2023
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Fuelled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers from the people who choose to make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, Campbell encounters funeral directors, embalmers, a man who dissects cadavers for anatomy students, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending 62 lives. She holds a brain at an autopsy, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, and goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective. Through Campbell's probing, reverent interviews with these people who see death every day, she pieces together the psychic jigsaw to ask: Why would someone choose a life of working with the dead? And what does dealing with death every day do to you? A dazzling work of cultural criticism, the book weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a brilliant look into the psychology of Western death.
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Author:
Campbell, Hayley, author
Imprint:
London : Raven Books, 2023.
Collation:
268 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2022.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781526601438 (pbk)
Dewey class:
363.75363.75
LC class:
HD9999.U52
Language:
English
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BRN:
3242548
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