Living Life With Death – Book Review

Synopsis – Living Life With Death

Monday mornings for most folks involve meetings and paperwork, but for Sarah Jones it involved the worst day of someone else’s life.

From stillborn babies to one-hundred-year-old grandmas, a peaceful passing to a horrific homicide and a lot in between. What is it like to be alive while constantly dealing with death?

Jones’ collection of essays and poems reveal the lessons she learned about being alive from those who are not and how working in the death industry shaped her everyday life.

Written with deep introspection and a surprising amount of humor, Living Life with Death offers a unique perspective and a lesson for all readers.

Author Bio

Sarah Jones is a Texas native, and recent New York transplant, whose debut book, Living Life with Death: Lessons Learned from the Death Industry, was published October 2024. Her book reflects her experiences from her decade of working in the death industry. Her roles included working in body donation for science, tissue recovery for donation, and autopsies.

Look for her podcast, Living Life with Death, where she reads excepts from the book and shares extra details and insights.

It can be found wherever you listen to your podcasts.

My Review

Living Life with Death by Sarah Jones

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


3.5 stars

Living Life with Death is a collections of essays and poems that detail experiences encountered over the author’s career in the death industry.

The essays were interesting and very short making this a very quick read. The poems were less compelling to me but, poetry is a genre that I often struggle to appreciate.

The stories were often humorous and other times heart breaking and did detail the way death changes those left behind.

This was an interesting glimpse into a side of life that so many of us fear and know very little about. If this is a subject that interests you then this non-fiction short novel would be a great way to be introduced to it.



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