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

By: Caitlin Doughty

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

By: Caitlin Doughty

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.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393249905

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9780393249903

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

By: Caitlin Doughty

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

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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.

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0393652718

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9780393652710

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

And Other Lessons from the Crematorium

By: Caitlin Doughty

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

And Other Lessons from the Crematorium

By: Caitlin Doughty

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.

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1782111050

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

By: Caitlin Doughty

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

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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).

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393245950

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Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Two)

Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

By: Caitlin R. Kiernan

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Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Two)

Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

By: Caitlin R. Kiernan

The second volume in a thrilling new Lovecraftian horror anthology series featuring spine-tingling tales from Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Shirley, and more Editor S.T. Joshi has assembled 18 brand-new stories of cosmic mayhem and terror, by Jason V. Brock, Rick Dakan, Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, Tom Fletcher, Richard Gavin, Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Langan, Nick Mamatas, Nicholas Royle, Darrell Schweitzer, John Shirley, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, Don Webb, and Chet Williamson. Including: When Death Wakes Me to Myself by John Shirley View by Tom Fletcher Houndwife by Caitlín R. Kiernan King of Cat Swamp by Jonathan Thomas Dead Media by Nick Mamatas The Abject by Richard Gavin Dahlias by Melanie Tem Bloom by John Langan And the Sea Gave Up the Dead by Jason C. Eckhardt Casting Call by Don Webb The Clockwork King, the Queen of Glass, and the Man with the Hundred Knives by Darrell Schweitzer The Other Man by Nicholas Royle Waiting at the Crossroads Motel by Steve Rasnic Tem The Wilcox Remainder by Brian Evenson Correlated Discontents by Rick Dakan The Skinless Face by Donald Tyson The History of a Letter by Jason V Brock Appointed by Chet Williamson

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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0857687859

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

By: Caitlin Doughty

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Book's by Caitlin Doughty

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

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

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

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

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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

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

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

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

Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Two)

Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Two)

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

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

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