All the Living and the Dead

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An Exploration of the People Who Make Death Their Life's Work

By Hayley Campbell

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Summary

In All the Living and the Dead, journalist Hayley Campbell delves into society's often hidden relationship with death. Through candid conversations with embalmers, death row executioners, mass fatality investigators, and bereavement midwives, she explores how those who encounter death daily manage its weight. The book questions whether confronting death directly might lessen our fears and examines what we miss by keeping death out of sight.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is well suited for readers interested in philosophy, sociology, and human experiences surrounding death. It appeals to those seeking a thoughtful, respectful, and profound examination of mortality and the people whose lives revolve around it.

All the Living and the Dead is an extraordinary, moving exploration of society’s attitudes towards death, and the impact on those who work with it every day.

For readers of Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test, Sue Black's All That Remains and Elinor Cleghorn's Unwell Women.

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‘A superlative piece of writing... provocative, loving and profound’ THE TIMES
‘Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement’ NIGELLA LAWSON

An Irish Times Book of the Year

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. ‘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 a former 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?

‘Essential, compassionate, honest’ Audrey Niffenegger, author of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE

‘Never macabre... poignant... Transformative’ FINANCIAL TIMES

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Praised as a compassionate and honest exploration, the book is described as transformative and awe-inspiring by reviewers including Audrey Niffenegger and The Financial Times. Readers highlight its profound, poignant, and sometimes humorous approach, with standout writing that is both provocative and loving. The book has been recognised as an essential and absorbing examination of death and its impact on the living.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526601438

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Raven Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 207g

Pages: 288

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Education & Reference Hayley Campbell Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

Hayley Campbell is an author, broadcaster and journalist. Her work has appeared in WIRED, Guardian, New Statesman, Empire, GQ, and more. She lives in London with her cat, Ned.