All That Remains: A Life in Death

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It is almost funny how long it took Tony Blair to respond to her findings; almost tragic that it was even necessary.

Although there was always a reason for them, such as a device to further expand the readers understanding of various biological processes etc. 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. It was these chapters I found the most interesting, as it builds on knowledge the reader takes from earlier chapters. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The book is closely based on the Colonial Parkway Killer, a suspected serial killer who is thought to have murdered 8 people in Virginia in the 1980s. She also gets love because she shouts out the interpreters her team worked in with Kosovo and recognizes to the mental and emotional toll of communicating the words of those who have been through such horrors. It took time, but as she became more skillful, her reputation began to grow and she began to be involved in more prestigious and important investigations, such as in gathering evidence of war crimes through forensic examinations of mass graves in war zones. For example, dismembering a body in certain ways cases too much leakage, making it harder to move and there really is a best way to remove a human head.

The book considers death in its clinical and personal aspects: the seven stages of postmortem alteration and the challenges of identifying the sex and age of remains; versus her own experiences with losing her grandmother, uncle and parents. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. The accounts of her parents' deaths can be skipped over completely with no loss, so I wonder why they're given so many pages in the first place. Sue Black must be one of the most unusual people in Britain… extraordinary…part meditation, part popular science and part memoir. 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.I lost my Nan to dementia, and it was a long, painful five years that she endured it, until she died peacefully in hospital, next to my Mum. If the subject matter interests you do read it - I would be surprised if many did not find it very interesting at the least.