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. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?įueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared.
It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. "Campbell is a probing investigator whose tone is always even, quietly emphasizing that death is the most natural thing in the world."- BookpageĪ 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.
Ultimately, Campbell calls for a closer relationship to death, less mystery surrounding this universal passage, and a reduction of fear through greater understanding."- AudioFile on All the Living and the Dead Her morbid fascination is evident in her tone as she sheds light on curiosities surrounding a subject that is foreign to many people.
Campbell's British accent and matter-of-fact delivery take the listener on a tour of mortuaries, postmortem experimentation, death-mask artistry, crime-scene cleaning, and executions, among others. "Journalist Hayley Campbell explores the often hidden world of those who work closely with death, finding compassion in unexpected settings.
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