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.
发表于2024-12-29
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
刚拿到本书时,我得承认自己被雷到了,“暗黑甜心”、“毒鸡尾酒”、“笑个不停”,还有艳丽的桃红色腰封,这都什么鬼?说好的殡葬业和火葬场呢?想想《入殓师》里性冷淡的脸、有型的风衣、庄严肃穆的音乐,再看看这个,深深怀疑我收错书了。确认下书名,没错,就是它。 这是...
评分我们经常和火葬场打交道,随着年龄的增长,几乎每年都要到火葬场去送别几位同事同学或者朋友的父母。可是我们却都不了解火葬场,也没机会去了解。如果不是去送葬,我们就是路过火葬场也会避之而去,那里实在是阴森恐怖。 可是手中的这本书,却是在讲述火葬场的故事。当...
评分只要是关于死亡的书,都很感兴趣,倒不是因为和作者一样有什么癖好,而是直面死亡才能消除对死亡的焦虑。 曾经生病的经历也让我有过死亡焦虑,死亡恐惧伴随了我可能两年之久,怕回到生病时生死一线的那种绝望和恐惧之中。归根结底,怕生病,怕受苦,怕死。 有个小伙伴,只要大...
评分2020年第一天读完的年度地一本书居然是讲告别的,这个开始我是没想到了٩( °༥° )و ₎₎ 随着年龄数字的不断叠加,儿时从电视机里、从书本里认识的人不断的离世,甚至周边的朋友也已经有因为意外、病痛提早告别的了。我不惧怕自己的死亡,我害怕我身边的人随着时...
评分老百姓有一句话“这日子,开心是过,不开心也是过,怎么都是一辈子。”初听来不过是一句朴实无华的家常话,可是仔细想想竟然蕴藏了人生的终极真相,那就是——人都是会死的。 我们的教育我们的人生观、世界观都是本能的逃避死亡的,凡是和死亡有关的,似乎都是避之不及,都是...
图书标签: Death 美国文学 英语原版 生命 美国 √电子版 生活 活着
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).
4/5 In her 'morbidly insightful' debut, Doughty demystifies the undertaking industry and, through her research into jaw-dropping death rituals and galore charnel anecdotes, brings us face to face with death.This book has the explosive power to shift our current death-denial culture and lead us into the Danse Macabre with peace, joy and celebration
评分死,然后成为安静的分子,构成晨间雾霭、暖阳里的灰尘。这不是对死亡的惩罚,而是对过得很好的一生的奖赏。
评分this one is really good.
评分学到了很多知识,不同的殡葬文化自己对死亡以及死后的思考,我对死亡的恐惧应该是afraid of what might happen to me if there is a life after death....不过应该没有吧?但是谁又知道呢,只有dead知道
评分殡仪馆里的死亡思考,在一个对死亡隐而不论的社会,很猎奇,也很敬畏。最好的部分其实是作者进入亡者世界的契机,童年时目睹小女孩惨死的心理阴影,「让每个人能够整洁而美好地离开」的理由才是动人的。也许是对死亡本身都没有任何实感,所以一直觉得死亡对于我而言不会造成任何恐慌,更多的是宿命论的无谓感。我恐慌的是疾病,而非死亡。但看完之后觉得,在处理遗体这件事上,还蛮认同作者这种佛系态度的,最好能回到自然去(不过关于尸体不会产生病菌和威胁生命健康这点还没有完全信服
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书