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2025-01-30
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
法兰克福书展的最后一天,已经没有约见。我和同伴们无处可去,便搭乘某条S线抵达了终点——巴特洪堡,一个宁静美丽的小镇。深秋,落红满地,人迹罕至。我们好像迷了路,却也不着急,在一个个block之间细细走,慢慢品。因为每一栋房子、每一个庭园都不一样,所以光看这些各异的...
评分生命短暂又脆弱 有些人离开之后就再也不会回来,任你哭天抹泪,那种无力感,像黑夜要将你吞没。 生命有蓬勃生机的春天,也有落地腐烂的寒冬。死亡带走了一切,可有一样东西永远也带不走,那就是流淌在我们心中的爱。 分别是,知道会重聚,所以我们都在原地等待。 永别却是,很...
评分关于死亡,今年以来我看过的讲的最好的书莫过于李开复的《向死而生》。“向死而生”是我国道家哲学里对死亡的一种阐述和认识,在《孙子兵法》里有“投之亡地而后存,陷之死地然后生。”的解释。死亡,在中国古代哲学体系里有非常严肃的讨论和定义,包括《聊斋志异》这样以鬼故...
评分文/夏丽柠 海德格尔说:当你无限接近死亡,才能体会生的意义。我们恐怕没有那么多机会接近死亡。不过,有这么位美国姑娘就整日与死亡为武,并将切身体会写成了《烟雾弥漫你的眼》。在书里她谈笑风生,说起死来就像我们谈论生。显然,这是一本奇葩作者写的奇葩书。 凯特林•...
评分1米8的大高个儿,凯特琳·道蒂,殡葬学院毕业,在殡仪馆当一名殡葬工,每天和亡者打交道。我想我不认识这个姑娘(也不可能有机会认识),但通过这样一本书,我记住了她,以及她黑色的长发和大眼睛。 每个人都会死亡,清晨丁香医生的一篇文章把我从恍惚中拉回现实,又坠入恍惚之...
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).
与其说它写死亡教育,不如说是关于生命教育。死亡是生活中注定会发生的事情,但是现代人刻意将其掩盖起来,变成充满恐惧,不安以及焦虑的意外事件。这书有中译本,我看英文原版觉得阅读体验非常好,笔触静谧深邃,文笔优美流畅。从现实到历史到中世纪文化亚马逊部落的仪式细密无缝地交织在一起。很抓人,又很触动。
评分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。
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this one is really good.
评分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。
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书