Page A37 December 2022 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS Se c t i on A NEWS Association CONTINUED AMRA INSTRUMENTS Researched, Developed and Patented by Funeral Directors Research,Inc. visit www.amrainstruments.com for links to our Supply Chain Partners ™ ® myASD.com 1-800-868-9950 Fully staffed and ready for your sensitive calls F U N E R A L E X C L U S I V E A N S W E R I N G S E R V I C E WETHERSFIELD,CT— The Connecticut Funeral Directors Association (CFDA) partnered with the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, CT on October 18 to present a virtual lunchtime event about the newly released book, ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work. Jesse M. Gomes, MA, CFSP, CPC, CCO, a licensed Connecticut funeral director/embalmer and member of CFDA’s executive committee, spoke with Hayley Campbell, the book’s author and a London-based broadcaster and journalist, who summarized the book. Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through Campbell’s incisive and candid interviews with these people who see death every day, she asks: Why would someone choose this kind of life? Does it change you as a person? And are we missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? A dazzling work of cultural criticism, All the Living and the Dead weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death. Hayley Campbell’s work has appeared in WIRED, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Empire, and GQ, among media. Gomes serves families at Molloy Funeral Home in West Hartford, CT. He received celebrant training and certification from the Insight Institute, to better meet the needs of families during their time of loss and is a member of both the British Institute of FuConnecticut FDA and Mark Twain House & Museum co-host Virtual Lunchtime Conversation neral Directors and the British Institute of Embalmers. The program director and an associate professor of the funeral service department at Goodwin University in East Hartford, Gomes is also director of operations at the Human Anatomy Laboratories and director of the Anatomical Gift Program at the Frank H. Netter, MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University in North Haven, CT. The Connecticut Funeral Directors Association (CFDA) is comprised of funeral directors at more than 220 funeral homes. Founded 133 years ago in 1889, the Wethersfieldbased association is committed to the promotion and advocacy of high ethical standards in funeral service. www.CTFDA.org or 860-721-0234. For more information on the Mark Twain House & Museum, visit www.MarkTwainHouse.org or call 860-247-0998. Like @Nomis.Publications
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