Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393240238 (0393240231)
ASIN: 393240231
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
TITLE: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory AUTHOR: Caitlin Doughty DATE PUBLISHED: 2014 FORMAT: e-book ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24595-0 ___________________________ This is something of an autobiography. Caitlin Doughty muses about her experience working in a crem...
I've been thinking about death a lot. And not in an existential way or in a 'oh man she needs professional help' kinda way. I've been thinking about the culture of death and how I'd like my own death to be handled. To that end, I chose a few titles which I'm convinced has skewed the way my co-worker...
This review was also posted at Carole's Random LifeThis was the best little book that I didn't even know that I wanted to read. I have to say that I would have probably never picked this book up for myself. I didn't even know that this book existed until it showed up at my house a couple of weeks ...
[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...