I recommend “Blood Beneath my Feet, Journey of a Southern Death Investigator” by Joseph Scott Morgan. It’s not a very long book but it contains some very gruesome imagery, and he talks very candidly about the things he’s seen and the impact he has seen it have on his colleagues and himself
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Maybe a bit off the mark, but you might like [From Here to Eternity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212121-from-here-to-eternity) by Caitlin Doughty. She goes on and behind scenes to look at a variety of funerary practices, some of which take place in morgues, crematoriums, fields, homes, and so on.
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty I think might be right what you’re looking for OP. It’s stories from her career as a mortician. Really changed my perspective on death and the funeral world
There’s also Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty is fantastic too. She is a forensic anthropologist and her memoir documents her work exhuming mass graves and processing remains of genocide victims.
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Stiff by Mary Roach. Also Working Stiff by Judy Melinek.
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I recommend “Blood Beneath my Feet, Journey of a Southern Death Investigator” by Joseph Scott Morgan. It’s not a very long book but it contains some very gruesome imagery, and he talks very candidly about the things he’s seen and the impact he has seen it have on his colleagues and himself
Maybe a bit off the mark, but you might like [From Here to Eternity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212121-from-here-to-eternity) by Caitlin Doughty. She goes on and behind scenes to look at a variety of funerary practices, some of which take place in morgues, crematoriums, fields, homes, and so on.
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty I think might be right what you’re looking for OP. It’s stories from her career as a mortician. Really changed my perspective on death and the funeral world
There’s also Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty is fantastic too. She is a forensic anthropologist and her memoir documents her work exhuming mass graves and processing remains of genocide victims.
Stiff by Mary Roach. Also Working Stiff by Judy Melinek.