From the Book - First U.S. edition.
The edge of mortality: Funeral director
The gift: Director of anatomical services
Click your fingers and they turn to stone: Death mask sculptor
Limbo: Disaster victim identification
The horror: Crime scene cleaner
Dining with the executioner: Executioner
None of this is forever: Embalmer
Love and terror: Anatomical pathology technologist
Tough mother: Bereavement midwife
Earth to earth: Gravedigger
The devil's coachman: Crematorium operator
The hopeful dead: Cryonics institute.
