Sorry For Your Loss: What working with the dead taught me about life

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I can’t imagine the depth of your grief. Please know I’m thinking of you and your family during this tragic time.

DG: I always wanted the end of the book to look more at a collective sense of grief. Coming through the pandemic, we have all been in that. Plus, I wanted to open the book up a little bit to move away from my personal stuff. This book takes you behind the scenes at a mortuary in a Northern Teaching Hospital. The author isn't a pathologist; she doesn't do postmortems-she assists behind the scenes-e.g. with family viewings of bodies, removing pacemakers etc. The book is a month by month account, e.g. May 2019, June 2019, July 2019, August 2019 etc., which suits me as I like diary format. So glad I read this! It was such a important and emotional read! The emotional gravity kept me thinking If I could find a way to take away your pain, I would move heaven and earth to do so. That is my greatest wish at this difficult time. I recommend the book to people not afraid to reflect on life and death. After all, the author wants the readers to reevaluate their priorities.Evie Walman is not obsessed with death. She does think about it a lot, though, but only because her family runs a Jewish funeral home. At twelve, Evie already knows she's going to be a funeral director when she grows up. So what if the kids at school call her "corpse girl" and say she smells like death? They're just mean and don't get how important it is to have someone take care of things when your world is falling apart. Poignantly honest and often morbidly amusing… an offbeat offering of comfort, laughter, and peace.” Library Journal It is in this setting that Evie strikes up a particular relationship with a survivor of a car accident .. someone her age....Oren Katzman.

SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS : What working with the dead taught me about life” is a non fiction memoir of a behind the scenes look at working life in an NHS hospital mortuary. Written by Linda Watson-Brown and is based on the real life experiences of Kate Marshall, as she recalls various encounters with both the living and the dead, during her employment across a full calendar year.Ah, my heart. 💔 This story was so sad and almost made me want to cry at times. I think it's the idea of how what happened to Oren could actually happen to a kid in real life. Yet, it's not everyday that a kid loses their parents in an instance.