Contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Notice
3. Author’s note
4. Epigraph
5. Introduction
6. The Edge of Mortality
   Funeral Director
7. The Gift
   Director of Anatomical Services
8. Click Your Fingers and They Turn to Stone
   Death Mask Sculptor
9. Limbo
   Disaster Victim Identification
10. The Horror
    Crime Scene Cleaner
11. Dining with the Executioner
    Executioner
12. None of This Is Forever
    Embalmer
13. Love and Terror
    Anatomical Pathology Technologist
14. Tough Mother
    Bereavement Midwife
15. Earth to Earth
    Gravedigger
16. The Devil’s Coachman
    Crematorium Operator
17. The Hopeful Dead
    Cryonics Institute
18. Afterword
19. Notes
20. Further Reading
21. Index
22. Acknowledgements
23. A Note on the Author
24. Copyright