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

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, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250281849
• ISBN13: 9781250281845
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"