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The Removalist

On the Front Line of Death Care

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The Removalist

By: Matthew Franklin Sias
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
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"To be able to thrive in a field most are terrified of is a source of pride.... To be in the presence of those who have crossed over the great divide is oddly meaningful, in an ultimate sense."

In this sequel to Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Lifesaving Mortician, ride along with mortuary removal technician Matthew Franklin Sias as he cares for the deceased in rural Washington State.

Step into the hidden world of death care and explore the challenge of removing the deceased from the often-difficult, regularly awkward, and sometimes downright bizarre circumstances in which they die, the art and science of embalming, and the intrigue of forensic pathology.

Sias is a veteran death investigator, former funeral director/embalmer intern, and paramedic with 28 years of emergency response experience.

©2018 Matthew Franklin Silas (P)2019 Tantor Business Medical Professionals & Academics
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I’m a hospice nurse and I found myself relating to the author a lot. Humour, honesty and tender moments. Also could be educational for non medical persons.
Listened to the whole thing in one go!
Good mixture of personal insight/feelings, real accounts, due process and the life balance.

Real and relatable

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I love books like this and I have never known an author to speak of the dead in such a disrespectful way. referring to suicide victims as 'unfortunate looking woman', talking about mentally ill folk such as hoarders as if they arent even worthy of life. he literally even says he's repulsed by morbidly obese people. repulsed! these people are DEAD dude and there's absolutely no way you got approval to talk about them like this. he's also awful about addiction. the stories might be interesting but the disrespect is so loud the further you get in to the book that i ended up turning it off with 30 mins to go. grim. do better.

so very disrespectful

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