- “An intimate yet wide-ranging and absorbing look at a professional life devoted to death.” Kirkus Reviews.
- “Powerfully chilling and unlike anything I’ve read before…a unique POV.” Angela Mackintosh, editor, Women on Writing.
- “Mary’s story was moving, like an earthquake. She not only knows her stuff, but she can write her stuff…she has a new fan.” Tommy Shea, Multiplicity, Bay Path University.
- “Crisp writing and it’s accomplished…to draw the reader in with details and human interest and with the incitement of a mystery…that will be resolved, the greatest carrot one can dangle in literature.” Steve Kuusisto, author of Planet of the Blind.
- “The well-described scene…touches an uneasy nerve but also hits on the issue of humanity…soberly reveals a raw, physical, and elemental side that most of society would likely prefer to ignore.” David Sandum, Ground Fresh Thursday and author of I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down.
- “The piece if powerful…appreciate its intimate and vulnerable tone.” Humans of the World