This book was incredible!! I worked 10 years in veterinary medicine where death was a daily, most time induced, occurrence and my younger brother is a funeral director so the subject of death and dying is not one in which I am unfamiliar. As I do not have the experience (thankfully) of daily human death I am constantly asking him what it is like, what different religious services entail, what is the worst you've seen gross wise, what is this instrument for, etc. etc. etc. Therefore not all of this book was a new concept for me but I was enthralled and it really did make me think of things in a different way and think about death workers that are not just the obvious ones!! I loved it and I have already recommended it to my brother and I will absolutely read it again!