As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. You get to know her as a loving mother, a no-nonsense woman, and she never fails to keep in mind morality.

She describes finding the bodies of missing people, how that is accomplished, how to pinpoint time and cause of death. Fearless, except for rodent, I so enjoyed my time listening to Sue Black narrate her book All that Remains.

Sue Black has been involved with scenes of mass fatalities, and identifying people along with the causes of their death. Być może dalej jest lepiej, ale szkoda mi czasu na nudzenie się i przegryzanie przez warstwę anegdotek i wspomnień rodzinnych. Black seems to enjoy the dead, more than the living, and investigating mutilated limbs is her icing on the cake.

Worse, I am totally irritated by the extreme and extended characterisation of death as 'She' whom we should get to know better so we can understand "her". She also informed a woman who said that she’d donate her body to a body farm that it would be disrespectful, and refused to consider that the person was quite happy to use her body in that way. Sadly, she didn't suggest better alternatives but I have these snippets of advice mentally shelved in case I ever need them. She speaks of the interesting people she meets as part of her work in a university anatomy department, and delicate but not awful experiences like giving a potential full body donor a tour of the cadaver lab in use.

The best book I've ever read on anatomy and death (and philosophy, in the form of thoughful essays) is by F. The book explores aspects of the author's life - part biographic and part recounting of significant cases she has dealt with. She gets into some gritty detail as to how some murderers dismember their victims, planting the body parts in different places and how one reassembles the body and also how one can convict the murderer through their butchering technique (or lack there of).

I'm so glad that I got around to reading this difficult, but powerful read, and I would definitely recommend it, as I think it might surprise people, at just how interesting death, and all the science surrounding it, actually is.The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Indeed, this unsentimental exploration of “the many faces of death” has at its heart the conviction that we should not fear death but accept it “as an integral and fundamentally necessary part of our life’s process”.

The programme was even more fascinating than I could have imagined and helped me discover more about both the process of identifying human remains and what kind of person it takes to do it.

A book based on the matter of death, probably shouldn't excite and intrigue a being as much as it has, but that day, earlier this year, when I bought this book in Waterstones, I had my Mum with me at the time, and although we have similar tastes, she has been known to raise that right eyebrow at some of mine. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. It was these chapters I found the most interesting, as it builds on knowledge the reader takes from earlier chapters. A bunch of notes on the author's personal life, private meetings with death, career and anthropology. The accounts of anatomy and what happens after death are fascinating, and it's an interesting light on how to cope with a job that many people would find horrifying, but it's written in a very chatty way as many of these are--as if transcribed from a long talk in the pub rather than written--so a lot depends on whether the reader finds that endearing or otherwise.