Fascinating read about people who work in the death industry. Hayley Campbell sets out to interview these death workers about what and why they do what they do. She meets them in their place of work and often gets a hands on experience with death right in front of her eyes and, in some cases, in her own hands. From embalmers, crime scene cleaners and mass fatality investigators to a bereavement midwife, a funeral home director, an executioner from Virginia and more. “We've always had death. We've just avoided its gaze. We hide it so we can forget it, so we can go on believing it won't happen to us.”