All That Remains: A Life in Death

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However I would just say that the Kosovo chapter was far the hardest to read and made me shed a tear.

Sue explains the nitty gritty of the decomposition process (morbidly fascinating) along with the process of how people actually die.

I know her motive was to hopefully shed light on these murders and hopefully bring justice to the murderers and give the victims' families a sense of closure, but they leave the reader hanging, like an unresolved chord at the end of a symphony. Likewise, towards the end of the book Sue talks about how her team raised funds for a new anatomy department – this part was a bit boring. She was the lead anthropologist for the British Forensic Team's work in the war crimes investigations in Kosovo, and she was one of the first forensic scientists to travel to Thailand following the Indian Ocean tsunami to provide assistance in identifying the dead. She is able to give people peace, especially when it is a murder enquiry, and the family wish to know what events unfolded at that time.

Her time there, as part of a team investigating war crimes, clearly had a significant effect on her as a person and that really comes across in the text.Daļēji populārzinātniska, daļēji biogrāfiska, daļēji filozofiska grāmata ap un par nāvi un to,kā cilvēki dažādās kultūras to uztver.

She was the lead anthropologist for the British Forensic Team's work in the war crimes investigations in Kosovo and one of the first forensic scientists to travel to Thailand following the Indian Ocean tsunami to provide assistance in identifying the dead. As Sue Black herself states, ‘humans cannot fail to be affected by the stories of other humans’, and when you’ve lead a life as full as this, it’s hard not to agree. In 1999, Sue Black – one of the world’s leading forensic anthropologists – found herself confronted by a “nightmare scene that could never be adequately described”. The best book I've ever read on anatomy and death (and philosophy, in the form of thoughful essays) is by F.I also saw her speak live, and the manner in which she catastrophised her experiences in Africa, and ridiculed the abilities of medical professionals dealing with minimal resources in the aftermath of civil war is appalling. Apparently it's hard to cut up/saw through a corpse without scratching the bath surface and it's very difficult to clean all the necessary drainage parts. It's a mish-mash of history, science, memoir, police investigations, cold cases, natural disasters, education and invention. This book expands on much of what was in that interview, as well as adding more details about her life, work, and the cases in which she's been involved.