I've never read a book quite like this one. The author, Campbell, interviews multiple people who are connected with the "death industry" - an embalmer, a bereavement midwife, 2 gravediggers, a cremator, and so on. All of these interviews happen before the pandemic, so that is not part of the equation here. And it's a highly personal quest for Campbell to do this as well, which can't be missed by the reader.
Eye-opening, emotional, factual, and a little weird at times, it's certainly a book worth reading. I could only read a chapter or 2 at a time because it pushes you to think and feel the topic and the specific role of each person interviewed and their particular job/role in the death industry. Took me back to my time in college in a class on Death and Dying, and, more recently, back to the bedside of my Dad as he took his final breaths. Whew.