Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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Caitlin Doughty is a licensed mortician and the host and creator of the "Ask a Mortician" web series. She founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. She lives in Los Angeles.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company
作者:Caitlin Doughty
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页数:254
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出版时间:2014-9-15
价格:USD 24.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780393240238
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  • 美国文学 
  • 英语原版 
  • 生命 
  • 美国 
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A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), Caitlin learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who care for the deceased.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters and unforgettable scenes. Caring for dead bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, Caitlin soon becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. She describes how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes) and reveals the strange history of cremation and undertaking, marveling at bizarre and wonderful funeral practices from different cultures.

Her eye-opening, candid, and often hilarious story is like going on a journey with your bravest friend to the cemetery at midnight. She demystifies death, leading us behind the black curtain of her unique profession. And she answers questions you didn’t know you had: Can you catch a disease from a corpse? How many dead bodies can you fit in a Dodge van? What exactly does a flaming skull look like?

Honest and heartfelt, self-deprecating and ironic, Caitlin's engaging style makes this otherwise taboo topic both approachable and engrossing. Now a licensed mortician with an alternative funeral practice, Caitlin argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead).

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一本关于死亡的书,读着却不会让人感到沉重。读完之后,给人带来的并不是对死亡的恐惧,而是对生活的勇气。

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果然很有趣并且学到很多新名词

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light hearted read

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死亡是一个很禁忌的话题,但是作者却把这个话题写得轻松,幽默却不乏思考。在作者讲述完毕她自己的经历之后,在书的最后几章里提到对死亡的思考,对死亡仪式的尊重,对什么是好的死亡的理解,把这本书收尾在最秒之处。非常好的阅读体验。

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Rather than denying the truth of death, it was a revelation to embrace it, however disgusting it might sometimes be.

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