Fascinating, funny, and honest! A perfect audiobook to keep your mind engaged and it is easy to follow.

This book is about how we deal with dead bodies. It's not about grief, the process of dying, or the afterlife. It's about things a mortician encounters on the job, with some gallows humor and historical facts sprinkled in. I'm a squeamish person when it comes to sights and smells, but I could handle the descriptions of decaying corpses.

The author has a good mission: death is our cultural taboo. Think of youth worship, anti aging creams, plastic surgeons, and how few of us have ever seen an unembalmed dead body (something that was commonplace until relatively recently). Being divorced from and in denial of our own mortality is at the heart of many cultural ills, according to the author, and I think she has a point.

I enjoyed listening to this book and I think it helped me destigmatize the view I had of the dead.