{"product_id":"all-the-living-the-dead","title":"All The Living \u0026 The Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003e''A gentle book and, like death itself, sometimes an unexpectedly kind one'' \u003c\/b\u003eNeil Gaiman\u003cb\u003e''This is an absorbing and important book, seeking out stories so many shy away from and telling them with such respect, humanity, heart and, yes, wit. Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement'' \u003c\/b\u003eNigella Lawson\u003cb\u003e___________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\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?\u003c\/b\u003e Fuelled 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 62 lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.Through 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?\u003cb\u003eA dazzling work of cultural criticism,\u003ci\u003e All the Living and the Dead \u003c\/i\u003eweaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e___________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCampbell is a gorgeous writer, capturing the exquisite pathos and gallows humour found in folks who spend their lives working with the dead'' \u003c\/b\u003eCaitlin Doughty, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSmoke Gets in Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57310243225982,"sku":"NW9781526601438","price":9.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781526601438.jpg?v=1780704195","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/all-the-living-the-dead","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}