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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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in trade magazines like The Shroud, The Western Undertaker, and The Sunnyside.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
We don’t need to stop at green or natural burial. “Burial” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word birgan, “to conceal.” Not everyone wants to be concealed under the earth. I don't want to be concealed.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
we do not believe in embalming. It is not a ritual that brings us comfort; it is an additional $900 charge on our funeral bills.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
A man dumps the body of a girl in a ditch. The body rots and melts into slime. Flowers pop up where the body lies. Seeds fly out of the flowers. A bee sucks the flowers and makes honey. The family of the girl buys the honey from the store. The family eats the girl.
- The Tracey Fragments (film)
In writing The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford wasn’t trying to improve our relationship with death, she was trying to improve our relationship with the price point. That is where she went wrong. It was death that the public was being cheated out of by the funeral industry, not money. The realistic interaction with death and the chance to
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