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Caitlin Doughty

    Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and author who delves into the subjects of death and dying. Through her work, characterized by frankness and curiosity, she examines cultural attitudes toward burial and grief. Her writing is designed to challenge readers to consider their own mortality and society's approaches to the end of life. Doughty shares her insights, aiming to normalize conversations about the inevitable.

    Caitlin Doughty
    Kiedy umrę, zjesz mnie kocie?
    Will my cat eat my eyeballs?
    Smoke gets in your eyes : and other lessons from the crematorium
    From Here to Eternity
    • Kiedy umrę, zjesz mnie kocie?

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Bestseller New York Timesa Książka wyróżniona Goodreads Choice Award 2019 w kategorii Nauka i technologia Najlepsza książka Amazona 2019 Każdego dnia Caitlin Doughty, najsławniejsza na świecie właścicielka domu pogrzebowego, otrzymuje dziesiątki pytań dotyczących śmierci i zwłok. Te najciekawsze pochodzą od dzieci: Co stałoby się z ciałem astronauty, gdyby zostało wypchnięte z promu kosmicznego? Czy mogę babci wyprawić pogrzeb w stylu wikingów? Pozwolą mi trzymać czaszkę mamy na biurku? Czy po śmierci można oddać krew? Czy mój ukochany Mruczek nadgryzie moje zwłoki, gdy umrę? W książce Kiedy umrę, zjesz mnie, kocie? Doughty fachowo, szczerze i z humorem rozprawia się z wieloma mitami i rozwiewa wątpliwości na temat umierania, rozkładu ciała i okoliczności, które mogą temu towarzyszyć. Według autorki nie możemy sprawić, by koniec życia stał się czymś przyjemnym, ale możemy poznać i oswoić temat, by nie bać się śmierci. Śmierć jest przecież ważnym elementem naszej rzeczywistości. Bez niej nie ma życia i prędzej czy później spotka każdego z nas.

      Kiedy umrę, zjesz mnie kocie?2020
      3.9
    • Will my cat eat my eyeballs?

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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 . . .

      Will my cat eat my eyeballs?2019
      4.2
    • From Here to Eternity

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      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.

      From Here to Eternity2017
      4.3
    • 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.

      Smoke gets in your eyes : and other lessons from the crematorium2015
      4.3