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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
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
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
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
