Oddly fascinating. I see some other reviewers balking at the very present narrator - I actually enjoyed this aspect. The light humour and personal accounts made the subject matter a little easier to handle. I imagine there are hundreds of mortuary type text books available if one is after something purely scientific, and I think with a subject this taboo and potentially upsetting the "human voice" approach was a good choice. This is not a book that I would rush out to buy or display on my book case but for something a little different, and yes, oddly fascinating it was an..enjoyable?....read. Audio - about 7hr. Good, though very american, narration.