by Caitlin Doughty
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...
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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