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

Caitlin Doughty

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393245950

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"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

Caitlin Doughty

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393249903

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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.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Caitlin Doughty

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Undertakers and undertaking
ISBN : 1782111050

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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.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Caitlin Doughty,Dianné Ruz

Author : Caitlin Doughty,Dianné Ruz
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393358490

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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.

Virtual Afterlives

Candi K. Cann

Author : Candi K. Cann
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813145426

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For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning. Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions. Author Candi K. Cann examines new forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral industry have both contributed to mourning rituals despite their limited ability to remedy grief. As grieving traditions and locations shift, people are discovering new ways to memorialize their loved ones. Bodiless and spontaneous memorials like those at the sites of the shootings in Aurora and Newtown and the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as roadside memorials, car decals, and tattoos are contributing to a new bereavement language that crosses national boundaries and culture-specific perceptions of death. Examining mourning practices in the United States in comparison to the broader background of practices in Asia and Latin America, Virtual Afterlives seeks to resituate death as a part of life and mourning as a unifying process that helps to create identities and narratives for communities. As technology changes the ways in which we experience death, this engaging study explores the culture of bereavement and the ways in which it, too, is being significantly transformed.

Death to Dust

Kenneth V. Iserson

Author : Kenneth V. Iserson
Publisher : Gale Group Incorporated
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Autopsy
ISBN : UOM:39015050758104

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In our culture, we rarely speak about death -- partly because it is seen as a sort of pornography, shrouded in indecency and immersed in taboos; and partly because we know so little about it. Yet nearly everyone at some point has questions about what happens after death. At long last, here is a book to answer many of those questions: What physical changes occur to a dead body?

Rest in Pieces

Bess Lovejoy

Author : Bess Lovejoy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451655001

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"IN THE LONG RUN, WE'RE ALL DEAD. But 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 Mozart to Hitler, 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"--Back cover.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393324822

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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.

Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?

Robert Webster

Author : Robert Webster
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402250842

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Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked? by Robert Webster Pdf

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

Hidden Truths

David Fubini

Author : David Fubini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119682332

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Hidden Truths by David Fubini Pdf

Complete your leadership toolkit with this inside look at high-level, executive positions Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told delivers profound and rarely discussed insights about C-suite jobs that provide aspiring leaders with practical, new skills that will equip them for the immense challenges of their desired jobs. Through 14 illuminating chapters, accomplished Harvard Business School faculty member and former Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company sets out the essential habits that help leaders create success, time and time again. You'll learn: How to recognize the limits of monetary incentives for employees and colleagues To manage your relationships with members of the Board of Directors How to value and realize true diversity How to manage mergers and acquisitions properly, one of the most difficult parts of business leadership Perfect for managers, executives, and other business leaders with an eye on the C-suite, Hidden Truths also belongs on the bookshelves of people who already find themselves in a C-level position and wish to learn how to better manage the stresses and challenges of the job.

The Dead Wife's Handbook

Hannah Beckerman

Author : Hannah Beckerman
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628725582

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Rachel, Max, and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life—until the night Rachel’s heart stopped beating. She was thirty-six. 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. This fresh debut novel touches on the various stages of bereavement, from denial to acceptance. As Max and Ellie work through their grief, Rachel too struggles to come to terms with her death. And as her husband starts to date again, Rachel realizes that one day Max will find love, and that Ellie will have a new mother figure in her life. The Dead Wife’s Handbook is a heartwarming and touching book, very commercial in its approach and a compelling read. It will touch a wide readership, and is a perfect read for fans of the bestseller The Lovely Bones. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Caitlin Doughty

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1432872273

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

My Grandfather's Gallery

Anne Sinclair

Author : Anne Sinclair
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374711795

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A singular man in the history of modern art, betrayed by Vichy, is the subject of this riveting family memoir 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. "Curious in spite of myself," she writes, "I plunged into these archives, in search of the story of my family. To find out who my mother's father really was . . . a man hailed as a pioneer in the world of modern art, who then became a pariah in his own country during the Second World War. I was overcome with a desire to fit together the pieces of this French story of art and war." Drawing on her grandfather's intimate correspondence with Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and others, Sinclair takes us on a personal journey through the life of a legendary member of the Parisian art scene in My Grandfather's Gallery. Rosenberg's story is emblematic of millions of Jews, rich and poor, whose lives were indelibly altered by World War II. Sinclair's journey to reclaim her family history paints a picture of modern art on both sides of the Atlantic between the 1920s and 1950s that reframes twentieth-century art history.

Working Stiff

Judy Melinek,T.J. Mitchell

Author : Judy Melinek,T.J. Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476727271

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“Fun…and full of smart science. Fans of CSI—the real kind—will want to read it” (The Washington Post): A young forensic pathologist’s “rookie season” as a NYC medical examiner, and the hair-raising cases that shaped her as a physician and human being. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. While her husband and their toddler held down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation—performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy’s two years of training, taking readers behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple, including a firsthand account of the events of September 11, the subsequent anthrax bio-terrorism attack, and the disastrous crash of American Airlines Flight 587. An unvarnished portrait of the daily life of medical examiners—complete with grisly anecdotes, chilling crime scenes, and a welcome dose of gallows humor—Working Stiff offers a glimpse into the daily life of one of America’s most arduous professions, and the unexpected challenges of shuttling between the domains of the living and the dead. The body never lies—and through the murders, accidents, and suicides that land on her table, Dr. Melinek lays bare the truth behind the glamorized depictions of autopsy work on television to reveal the secret story of the real morgue. “Haunting and illuminating...the stories from her average workdays…transfix the reader with their demonstration that medical science can diagnose and console long after the heartbeat stops” (The New York Times).

Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand:

Dana Kollmann

Author : Dana Kollmann
Publisher : Trade Paperback
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806531595

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“Informative, witty . . . Kollmann delivers terse commentary and gory detail while puncturing common misconceptions about forensics.” —Booklist Step past the flashing lights into the true scene of the crime with this frank, unflinching, and unforgettable account of life as a crime scene investigator. Whether explaining rigor mortis or the art of fingerprinting a stiff corpse on the side of the road, Dana Kollmann details her true, unvarnished experiences as a CSI for the Baltimore County Police Department. “Riveting.” —M. William Phelps, New York Times bestselling author of We Thought We Knew You Unlike the popular crime dramas proliferating on today’s television networks, these forensic tales forgo glitz for grit to show what really goes on. Kollmann recounts stories that the cops and the CSI’s usually leave in the field, bringing the sights, smells, and sounds of a crime scene alive as never before. “Raw and real.” —Connie Fletcher, author of Every Contact Leaves a Trace Unveiling the process and science of crime scene investigation in all its can’t-tear-your-eyes-away fascination, Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand takes you into the strange world behind the yellow tape, offering a truly eye-opening perspective on the day-to-day life of a CSI. “Gritty, witty, and heartfelt . . . a must-read.” —Aphrodite Jones, New York Times bestselling author of A Perfect Husband

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes And Other Lessons From The Crematory

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Pdf

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Pdf

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty Pdf

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty,Dianné Ruz Pdf

Virtual Afterlives by Candi K. Cann Pdf

Death to Dust by Kenneth V. Iserson Pdf

Rest in Pieces by Bess Lovejoy Pdf

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Pdf

Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked? by Robert Webster Pdf

Hidden Truths by David Fubini Pdf

The Dead Wife's Handbook by Hannah Beckerman Pdf

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty Pdf

My Grandfather's Gallery by Anne Sinclair Pdf

Working Stiff by Judy Melinek,T.J. Mitchell Pdf

Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand: by Dana Kollmann Pdf

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