Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (eBook)

And Other Lessons from the Crematorium

Caitlin Doughty (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
272 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78211-104-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Caitlin Doughty was born and raised in Hawaii before gaining a degree in Medieval History from the University of Chicago. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she owns an alternative funeral home, Undertaking LA. She is the creator of the 'Ask a Mortician' web series, the founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Dead and co-founder of Death Salon.

Rezensionen

Frank . . . philosophical . . . engaging and even wicked

America's (kinda dark) sweetheart

Truly riveting . . . this funerally forthright book rings with life and dead-pan humour . . . Having read her brilliant contribution to the death debate, I'm with her all the way to the cremation chamber (and I'd let her push the button)

Timely, funny, honest and interesting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is an enormously helpful contribution to the current taboo-breaking debate about death

Demonically funny dispatches

Strange and funny. It may well blow your mind wide open

Upbeat, brave and brilliantly, morbidly curious . . . Important and timely

Caitlin Doughty blows a huge matter-of-fact hole in the grim curtain of silence surrounding the death industry - and what a blessed relief that is. This book absolutely must be read, if only to remind all of us that exercise, organic food and plastic surgery only work up to a point. Doughty is my kind of death crusader - compassionate, unblinking and very, very funny

A well-researched, beautifully observed book and Doughty is a convincing and impassioned advocate for changes in our cultural attitudes towards death . . . There's much to enjoy in this thoughtful, unflinching and highly entertaining memoir

A book as graphic and morbid as this one could easily suck its readers into a bout of sorrow, but Doughty - a trustworthy tour guide through the repulsive and wondrous world of death - keeps us laughing most of the way

[Doughty's] sincere, hilarious, and perhaps life-altering memoir is a must-read for anyone who plans on dying

Eye-opening, cringe-inducing, often hilarious, occasionally haunting, always insightful

A zingy, fresh and possibly even important book about death . . . This book might change your life

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2015
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
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• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Being Mortal • book about death • Book About Dying • Crematorium stories • Death • Death Café • Death memoir • death practices • Death Revolution • Death Salon • funeral director • Funeral Director Memoir • home funeral • Mortician Memoir • Mortician stories • natural burial
• ISBN-10: 1-78211-104-2 / 1782111042
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-104-7 / 9781782111047