Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

2014-09-15
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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  • Author: Caitlin Doughty
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393245950
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 175

"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).

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

2017-10-03
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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  • Author: Caitlin Doughty
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393249905
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 215

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

2019-09-10
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

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  • Author: Caitlin Doughty
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393652718
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 195

New York Times Bestseller Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award “Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, Guardian Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death—Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.

Rest in Pieces

2013-03-12
Rest in Pieces

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  • Author: Bess Lovejoy
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1451655010
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

A “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead. 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 Alexander the Great to Elvis Presley, and from Beethoven to Dorothy Parker, 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.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

2004-04-27
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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  • Author: Mary Roach
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393324826
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.

Mortuary Confidential

2010
Mortuary Confidential

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  • Author: Kenneth McKenzie
  • Publisher: Kensington Books
  • ISBN: 0806531797
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?

2011-05-01
Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?

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  • Author: Robert Webster
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • ISBN: 1402250843
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies? With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and quirky stories gleaned from a life lived around death. Webster tackles those embarrassing questions we all have about what really goes on bhind the scenes when you've left this world: Strange things people put in caskets The biggest rip-offs in the business The crazy things that happen to a body after death Lime, waz, and other ways to hide the truth The most important thing an undertaker does How to avoid the high-pressure funeral parlor What that's not a coffin the body is resting in

The Dead Wife's Handbook

2014-02-13
The Dead Wife's Handbook

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  • Author: Hannah Beckerman
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 1405912812
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 387

If you loved If Only I Could Tell You, you'll be captivated by this uniquely emotional and uplifting story of love, loss and second chances 'Today is my death anniversary. A year ago today I was still alive.' Rachel, Max and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life - until the night Rachel's heart stopped beating. Now Max and Ellie are doing their best to adapt to life without Rachel, and just as her family can't forget her, Rachel can't quite let go of them either. Caught in a place between worlds, Rachel watches helplessly as she begins to fade from their lives. And when Max is persuaded by family and friends to start dating again, Rachel starts to understand that dying was just the beginning of her problems. As Rachel grieves for the life she's lost and the life she'll never lead, she learns that sometimes the thing that breaks your heart might be the very thing you hope for. Fans of Marian Keyes, Jojo Moyes and Claire Mackintosh will love this unforgettable and poignant novel. _________ 'Beautifully written and full of love' Fern Britton 'A moving and intriguing debut novel' Fabulous Magazine

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

2019
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

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  • Author: Caitlin Doughty
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
  • ISBN: 9781432872274
  • Category : Humor
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Bestselling author and mortician Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

My Grandfather's Gallery

2014-09-16
My Grandfather's Gallery

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  • Author: Anne Sinclair
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 0374251622
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 241

On September 20, 1940, one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in New York, one of hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy France. Leaving behind his beloved Paris gallery, Paul Rosenberg had managed to save his family, but his paintings - modern masterpieces by Cézanne, Monet, Sisley, and others - were not so fortunate. As he fled, dozens of works were seized by Nazi forces and the art dealer's own legacy was eradicated. More than half a century later, Anne Sinclair uncovered a box filled with letters and plunged into these archives, in search of the story of her family