Hayley Campbell: All the Living and the Dead (2023)
ISBN: 9781526601438
Hayley Campbell: All the Living and the Dead (2023)
ISBN: 9781526601438
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In this profoundly moving and remarkable book, journalist Hayley Campbell explores society's attitudes towards death, and the impact on those who work with it every day.
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ISBN
9781526601438
Author
Hayley Campbell
Binding
Soft cover
Date of publication
2023
Format
Book
Language
English
School book
No
'If the reason we're outsourcing this burden is because it's too much for us,' she asks, 'how do they deal with it?' Would facing death directly make us fear it less?Inspired by her own childhood fascination with the subject, she meets embalmers and aformer death row executioner, mass fatality investigators and a bereavement midwife. She talks to gravediggers who have already dug their own graves and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with people who see death every day, she asks: Does seeing death change you as a person? And are we all missing something vital by letting death remain hidden?