Tag Archives: Caitlin Doughty



Death Salon Soon to Engage the Curious at Mütter Museum

The Death Salon teams up with Mütter Museum to share ideas, artefacts, and a deathly good evening of food and dance
Posted on September 30, 2015 by Juniper Quin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

According to their website, the Death Salon is a collective of “historians, writers, artists, musicians, death professionals, and armchair researchers shining a light on the culture of death denial by engaging with mortality via various media.” The main minds behind … Continue reading →

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The Shift From Burials To Cremation In Western Culture

How journalist Jessica Mitford helped spark a cultural shift in our end-of-life practices
Posted on November 13, 2014 by Marissa Abruzzini (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

A popular joke goes a little something like this: one fish swims up to another fish and asks, “How’s the water?” The other fish responds, “What the hell is water?” David Foster Wallace and Derek Sivers have used this joke … Continue reading →

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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

A young woman's funny, heartfelt memoir of working as a mortician and revolutionizing how we think of death
Posted on October 31, 2014 by Marissa Abruzzini (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

From her opening line “A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves,” I could tell this isn’t your run-of-the-mill memoir. Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory is at once laugh-out-loud funny and … Continue reading →

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