Paramedics save lives. Morticians bury their mistakes.A twenty-three-year veteran of emergency medical services, paramedic Matthew Sias took a detour in his career to pursue the death care business and found a complementarity between two seemingly divergent careers.Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician, is the record of some of the more memorable calls he has responded to through the … responded to through the years.
Often intense, at times gruesome, and frequently humorous, this memoir takes you from the back seat of the medic unit racing to the hospital with a trauma patient, to the brightly lit embalming room of a funeral home, and everywhere in between. Having the ability to calmly assist a person in crisis is, perhaps, one of life’s most awesome privileges.
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I very seldom thought of the people in the Emergency rooms, EMS, and Fire departments and Mortuary caretakers. I am grateful that they have a profound passion and reverace for life. I am truly seeing these men and women in a completely new light. Thank you for your service.
I loved this book! As a person that worked in the medical field, I enjoyed the stories……told factually, compassionately, and honestly. I’ve already ordered the next book!
Eye opening memoir of what it takes, education and personality wise, to serve the public as an EMT/paramedic and Mortician. The stories range from the funny to the absurd to the tragic. Very insightful.
Very interesting.
Great nonfiction read. I’m now reading his next one.