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Books By Caitlin Doughty
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'Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death' Gavin Francis, Guardian
From 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.
'Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death' Gavin Francis, Guardian
From 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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Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?
Why don't animals dig up all the graves?
Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn strange colours during decomposition? and why do hair and nails appear longer after death? The answers are all within . . .
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As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning - including a futuristic glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan, a candlelit Mexican cemetery, and America's only open-air pyre. In doing so she expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with 'dignity' and reveals unexpected possibilities for our own death rituals.
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"Uma menina nunca esquece seu primeiro cadáver." – Caitlin Doughty Um livro para quem planeja morrer um dia. Morrer é a única certeza da vida. Então, por que evitamos tanto falar sobre ela? A morte é inevitável, sentimos muito. Mas pelo menos, como descobriu Caitlin Doughty, ficar a sete palmos do chão ainda é uma opção. ''Confissões do Crematório'' reúne histórias reais do dia a dia de uma casa funerária, inúmeras curiosidades e fatos históricos, mitológicos e filosóficos. Tudo, é claro, com uma boa dose de humor. Enquanto varre as cinzas das máquinas de incineração ou explica com o que um crânio em chamas se parece, Caitlin Doughty desmistifica a morte para si e para seus leitores. O livro de Caitlin – criadora da websérie Ask a Mortician e da – levanta a cortina preta que nos separa dos bastidores dos funerais e nos faz refletir sobre a vida e a morte de maneira honesta, inteligente e despretensiosa – exatamente como deve ser. Como a autora ressalta na nota que abre o livro, "a ignorância não é uma benção, é apenas uma forma profunda de terror". Caitlin Doughty é agente funerária, escritora e mantém um canal no YouTube onde fala com bom humor sobre a morte e as práticas da indústria funerária. É criadora da websérie Ask a Mortician, fundadora do grupo The Order of the Good Death (que une profissionais, acadêmicos e artistas para falar sobre a mortalidade) e também autora de Confissões do Crematório.
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