{"product_id":"book-f630","title":"All the Living and the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Journalist Hayley Campbell explores the often hidden world of those who work closely with death, finding compassion in unexpected settings. 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. Her morbid fascination is evident in her tone as she sheds light on curiosities surrounding a subject that is foreign to many people. Ultimately, Campbell calls for a closer relationship to death, less mystery surrounding this universal passage, and a reduction of fear through greater understanding.\"- \u003ci\u003eAudioFile \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eAll the Living and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Campbell is a probing investigator whose tone is always even, quietly emphasizing that death is the most natural thing in the world.\"- Bookpage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis audiobook is read by the author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with these people who see death every day, she asks: Why would someone choose this kind of life? Does it change you as a person? And are we missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? A dazzling work of cultural criticism, \u003ci\u003eAll the Living and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer listeners a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49357299122480,"sku":"BDf630","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/f630-Square-cover.jpg?v=1777493108","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-f630","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}