A review by doriangaymer
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

Affectionately, we are all going to die. It is what it is. Our culture is obsessed with living and dying in equal measure. In the modern world, medicine is at once a blessing and a curse. We live longer now, and in that longevity, we have come to fear not only dying, which is natural, but death itself, which is not. Or, rather, it shouldn't be. We should be more accepting of death. See it as a friend waiting to guide us to whatever we believe the end will be. And sometimes, we need a guide in life to help guide our minds to acceptance. 

This book is that guide. A sometimes dark, yet lighthearted, look at the death industry by Caitlin Doughty of "Ask a Mortician" fame. After knitting a blanket and binging all the videos on her Youtube channel, I bought this book. It will be reread in the future, and contains a wonderful list of sources for further reading on the subject.
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