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Book Review of All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

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If you take 3/4 of this book out, keeping only the facts, it would've been a great book. Instead it is heavily loaded with the author's opinions and rants. Even a little bit of that would've been okay but it was way too crammed with the unnecessary. There was a section on people who donate their body to science. At one point the author comments that your death is pointless unless you go this route. Then she is like just kidding but yeah, it is pointless. Death is very personal for people and it is irritating to see her pushing judgement on those who make other decisions. It goes on like this throughout the book and it really kept me from truly enjoying it.