![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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