Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory write by Caitlin Doughty. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death write by Caitlin Doughty. This book was released on 2017-10-03. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies write by Caitlin Doughty. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestseller Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award “Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, Guardian Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death—Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.
Stiff
Stiff - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stiff write by Mary Roach. This book was released on 2003-03-25. Stiff available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
Mortuary Confidential
Mortuary Confidential - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mortuary Confidential write by Kenneth McKenzie. This book was released on 2010. Mortuary Confidential available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.
