The Seven Ages of Death: ‘Every chapter is like a detective story’ Telegraph

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Each chapter is like a finely crafted detective story in which he expands on the causes of death as revealed by the post mortem, or the hidden reasons that precipitated it. Some are ordinary, others extraordinary. Shepherd writes beautifully, and despite its subject, the book is very funny in parts * Daily Telegraph *Ad Feature From luxury skincare to must-have make-up collections - get Christmas all wrapped up with dream gifts... Shepherd was also trying to explain physiology quite a bit, which may be good for a layperson, but for me, I glazed over. Finally, I thought some of his personal anecdotes and recounting his own health ailments (knee arthritis? who cares?!) were unnecessary and annoying. These autopsies, spanning the seven ages of human existence, uncover the secrets not only of how a person died, but also of how they lived. Zara McDermott breaks down in tears over sweet gesture from boyfriend Sam Thompson after Strictly Come Dancing departure The Crown recreates one of the last ever photos of Princess Diana on Mohamed Al-Fayed's yacht just a week...

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The View host Sara Haines reveals the touching note Matthew Perry wrote to her brother to support him through his own alcoholism struggles But above all, Shepherd’s book was memorable because of his infectious delight in the look and feel of the inside of the human body and his painterly ability to make the bits of offal inside our bones seem suddenly rather beautiful. He humanised the pathologist, showing us not the broad-brush figure of TV crime drama who delivers a broadside of wry quips to demonstrate their detachment, but somebody possessed by death, and leaving the reader to decide how far this was admirable or alarming. The cover of this fascinating book declares that "Britain's Top Forensic Psychologist Reveals the Hidden Lives of the Dead," and that is a pretty accurate description of its contents. Using the text from Shaespeare's play "As You Like It," which begins: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages," Dr. Richard Shepherd uses real-life examples of deaths he has investigated, from infants to those in old age, to reveal a very engaging perspective on the span of our mortal existence. Nothing was found, and Dr Shepherd discovered that parents were professionals, living in a middle-class area with no evidence of drinking or drug abuse in the home. There were no other signs of ill treatment on Ferguson.

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