Smoke Gets In Your Eyes And Other Lessons From The Crematory
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
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Author : Caitlin Doughty
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2015-04-16
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes written by Caitlin Doughty and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-16 with Social Science categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death' Gavin Francis, Guardian From her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about she started to wonder about the lives of those she cremated and the mourning families they left behind, and found herself confounded by people's erratic reactions to death. Exploring our death rituals - and those of other cultures - she pleads the case for healthier attitudes around death and dying. Full of bizarre encounters, gallows humour and vivid characters (both living and very dead), this illuminating account makes this otherwise terrifying subject inviting and fascinating.
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes And Other Lessons From The Crematory
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Author : Caitlin Doughty
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes And Other Lessons From The Crematory written by Caitlin Doughty and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"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).
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs
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Author : Caitlin Doughty
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-09-19
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs written by Caitlin Doughty and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-19 with Social Science categories.
Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral? Why don't animals dig up all the graves? Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn strange colours during decomposition? and why do hair and nails appear longer after death? The answers are all within . . .
From Here To Eternity
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Author : Caitlin Doughty
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-10-03
From Here To Eternity written by Caitlin Doughty and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning - including a futuristic glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan, a candlelit Mexican cemetery, and America's only open-air pyre. In doing so she expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with 'dignity' and reveals unexpected possibilities for our own death rituals.
Rest In Pieces
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Author : Bess Lovejoy
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-01-05
Rest In Pieces written by Bess Lovejoy and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"IN THE LONG RUN, WE'RE ALL DEAD. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer's office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln's corpse. Einstein's brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy--which they drank. From Mozart to Hitler, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death"--Back cover.
Past Mortems
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Author : Carla Valentine
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-04-06
Past Mortems written by Carla Valentine and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Medical categories.
**PRE-ORDER NOW: MURDER ISN'T EASY: THE FORENSICS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE FASCINATING NEW BOOK BY CARLA VALENTINE** 'Part memoir and part manifesto, Valentine's book lifts the lid on daily life in the mortuary . . . Valentine bares her own soul . . . with visceral attention to physical and emotional detail' - Wendy Moore, Guardian 'A fascinating portrait . . . one seriously intriguing read' - Glamour 'A grisly topic, but a glorious read' - Mail on Sunday A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that day's corpses her task list. Past Mortems tells Carla's stories of those years, as well as investigating the body alongside our attitudes towards death - shedding light on what the living can learn from dead and the toll the work can take on the living souls who carry it out. Fascinating and insightful, Past Mortems reveals the truth about what happens when the mortuary doors swing shut or the lid of the coffin closes . . .
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
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Author : Caitlin Doughty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-03-03
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes written by Caitlin Doughty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Undertakers and undertaking categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death' Gavin Francis, GuardianFrom her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about she started to wonder about the lives of those she cremated and the mourning families they left behind, and found herself confounded by people's erratic reactions to death. Exploring our death rituals - and those of other cultures - she pleads the case for healthier attitudes around death and dying. Full of bizarre encounters, gallows humour and vivid characters (both living and very dead), this illuminating account makes this otherwise terrifying subject inviting and fascinating.
The American Way Of Death Revisited
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Author : Jessica Mitford
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-11-23
The American Way Of Death Revisited written by Jessica Mitford and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-23 with Social Science categories.
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post
Death To Dust
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Author : Kenneth V. Iserson
language : en
Publisher: Gale Group Incorporated
Release Date : 2001
Death To Dust written by Kenneth V. Iserson and has been published by Gale Group Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Autopsy categories.
In our culture, we rarely speak about death -- partly because it is seen as a sort of pornography, shrouded in indecency and immersed in taboos; and partly because we know so little about it. Yet nearly everyone at some point has questions about what happens after death. At long last, here is a book to answer many of those questions: What physical changes occur to a dead body?
The American Way Of Death
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Author : JESSICA MITFORD
language : en
Publisher:
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The American Way Of Death written by JESSICA MITFORD and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.