Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living

Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living

The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead.

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