Hayley Campbell tells her story as she investigates the people who have made their life work dealing with death. She spends time with grave diggers, a homicide detective, people who work at a cryonics facility, embalmers, executioners, a man whose job is to clean up and make crime scenes disappear, and mass fatality investigators.

The story tells of her childhood and how she came to search for those people asking canidi questions about their work and why they made their choice to work with the dead.

It is a fascinating journey toward making an acquaintance with the different aspects of death and the people who see it every day.

Writers who want to become up close and personal with death or anyone who wants to know about it.

I liked the details about the jobs, philosophy, and the way this book explained people's relationships with their jobs working with death.

I like all of this book. It may be too graphic for some readers.

I was glad I read this book because it helped me learn about the speciality jobs working with death which I might be able to use in a story.

I feel closer to death in a good way and perhaps will learn more about it in the future.

The details in this book are fantastic.

Readers who are interested in learning about death, jobs related to death, and writers who want an up-close experience with death and the jobs related to it will want to read this book.

If death is upsetting find another book.

I learned a lot about the different jobs and details of people working every day with tragedy. Insight into the emotions these workers have and how they deal with them is mentioned which can be helpful for a writer or someone who wants to understand more about dealing with death.

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