All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade

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Generous’ here is generously poised between denoting empathy and magnanimity (Gabriel’s tears show his new-found generosity of spirit towards others, such as his wife, such as Michael Furey) and simply signifying copiousness. There is no good time to talk about death. Nobody wants to hear about death on a nice day, because it would spoil the mood, and nobody wants to talk about death when it is upon us because it’s too close, too insensitive, tonally off. Bristol-based duo The Insects were commissioned to write the score for the series. [21] The first episode features the traditional song " She Moved Through the Fair" sung by Elizabeth Fraser, plus the Anglican hymn " Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise" at the ploughman's funeral. [22] Another recurring song is "The Reaper's Ghost", [23] composed by Richard Dyer-Bennet in 1935. [24] Episodes [ edit ] No.

I enjoyed All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell, however most telling were probably the number of books from the further reading section that I’ve read on this subject over the years: Interesting was the special maternity unit for women who were going to deliver a dead baby or one who would die soon after birth. A quiet, calm place, where there were no screams of pain from women in unmedicated labour. There are cooling cots so that the baby can remain with the parents until they are ready to let the baby be buried. And midwives who dedicate themselves to delivering only dead babies in sadness, although they train to deliver in joy, one of the few medical procedures that is generally joyous. Special women, very compassionate and empathetic. Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator.All the Living and the Dead is an amazing book. As I get older, sign up for Medicare and begin to face my own mortality in a more serious way, I have looked for books to help with this process. There is not a lot out there, and I hesitated before requesting this book from Netgalley, but Hayley Campbell has written about death and the many different people associated with it so well that I found the book informative and beautiful. In her spare time she became a Samaritan, volunteering to answer the phones at the charity that provides emotional support to those feeling lost or suicidal. But as her job became busier, as the travel kept her further away from home, her shifts would get missed or moved. ‘It made me very sad. I spent about two years just not having the answer. I was having a sort of quarter-life crisis.’ She knew she wanted to engage with regular people on the frontline of existence, to do something that mattered – birth, love or death, it wasn’t important which – but she couldn’t figure out how, or what, until life began to make the decision for her.

Readers who share Campbell's healthy obsession will appreciate both her meticulous reporting and her marked compassion.” — Booklist (starred)

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This is a brave tour through the valley of the shadow. I am happy to welcome Hayley Campbell to the Death community.” — Catharine Arnold, author of Necropolis: London and its Dead Many of us were confined to the personal space of our homes, we lived, ate and even worked in our homes shielded from the unpleasantness of illness and death. Some people went through the agony of not being able to be near loved ones in hospitals or adult living facilities due to fear of infection and when someone we knew died, we were likely to only experience the funeral on Zoom from a distance. Since I woke up an hour and half ago, around 9,486 people around the world have died. 151,776 die every day, about 55.4 million people a year. (If you've just woken up and are trying to enjoy your morning coffee when you read this review, I'm sorry to get your day started on such a bleak note.)