Summary of Hayley Campbell's All the Living and the Dead

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#1 Jeremy Bentham, an eccentric philosopher, was ahead of the curve on many things. He believed in gay rights and publicly dissected by his friends.

#2 You can separate specific shocks to save your heart. I had never considered this idea, but it made sense. I wondered what I would be like now, if I had met her as a child and she had shown me what I wanted to see.

#3 A funeral director in the UK does not require a license to handle the dead. I wondered what I would be like if I had met her as a child and she had shown me what I wanted to see.

#4 I had never considered that one could separate specific shocks to save one’s heart. I wondered what I would be like if I had met her as a child and she had shown me what I wanted to see.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350000559

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Insights on Hayley Campbell's All the Living and the Dead

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The first dead body you see should not be someone you love. You should be able to separate the shock of seeing death from the shock of grief, said Poppy Mardall, a funeral director in her mid-thirties.

#2

I had never thought about separating the specific shocks of death to save your heart. I wondered what I would be like now if I had met her as a child and she had shown me what I wanted to see.

#3

In the UK, a funeral director needs no license to handle the dead, as they do in America. All of Poppy’s staff come from places other than the funeral industry: Poppy herself used to work at the auction house Sotheby’s, until she felt the meaninglessness of her work life bearing down on her.

#4

Funeral directing was on Poppy’s list not only because it involves one of the biggest life events, but because her mother had made it clear what she did and did not want in a funeral. She wanted to play a part in changing the world of death.

#5

The mortuary is a beautiful place, and it is because of Roseanna and Aaron’s efforts to keep it that way. It was not always a mortuary, but it was restored to its original use.

#6

The bodies in the fridges at the funeral home have been prepared and are waiting to be washed and dressed. They are then buried or burned.

#7

I had wanted to see what death looked like, and Adam looked dead. His skin