[Non-fiction] This book is NOT for everybody, but if you can stomach it, it's quite enlightening, and the the anecdotes are entertaining too. Some parts are written tongue-in-cheek, others border on irreverential, but all serve to make a taboo(ish) subject a little less macabre. I am unfamiliar with...
Surprisingly, I'm the first person to check out my library's copy of Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory. When Doughty was eight years old, she witnessed the accidental death of a girl at a mall. The incident led to Doughty developing a series of rituals...
One-sentence review: A lovely little starter book from Caitlin Doughty, gently introducing readers to some of her thoughts about death culture and the American death industry by talking about the evolution of her own thoughts on the subject; but I hope a more in-depth (non-memoir), researched volume...
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