圖書標籤: Death 美國文學 英語原版 生命 美國 √電子版 生活 活著
发表于2025-05-04
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), Caitlin learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who care for the deceased.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters and unforgettable scenes. Caring for dead bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, Caitlin soon becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. She describes how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes) and reveals the strange history of cremation and undertaking, marveling at bizarre and wonderful funeral practices from different cultures.
Her eye-opening, candid, and often hilarious story is like going on a journey with your bravest friend to the cemetery at midnight. She demystifies death, leading us behind the black curtain of her unique profession. And she answers questions you didn’t know you had: Can you catch a disease from a corpse? How many dead bodies can you fit in a Dodge van? What exactly does a flaming skull look like?
Honest and heartfelt, self-deprecating and ironic, Caitlin's engaging style makes this otherwise taboo topic both approachable and engrossing. Now a licensed mortician with an alternative funeral practice, Caitlin argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead).
Caitlin Doughty is a licensed mortician and the host and creator of the "Ask a Mortician" web series. She founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. She lives in Los Angeles.
Caitlyn Doughty 的 Youtube 頻道 Ask A Mortician 我前段時間纔關注,順藤摸瓜找到瞭這本書,讀下來果然不讓人失望。Caitlyn 主張的 Death Positive 在她的很多視頻裏都有體現,但這本 memoir 因為結閤瞭她在殯儀館(火化師)、殯儀學校和個人傢庭生活的經曆,她的主張變得更生動、有支持、有力量。而且Caitlyn 真的很會寫!!開篇寫給第一個屍體脫毛就令人感到驚艷(這句怎麼感覺怪怪的…)。Audio book 由她本人朗讀,和她 on-camera 的幽默感一脈相承。總之就是無論是齣於好奇、恐懼還是對死亡思考的目的,這都是一本非常值得推薦的好書~
評分light hearted read
評分this one is really good.
評分確實是一本有趣的書。用詼諧的口吻描述入殮師的工作和自身經歷。絕望過,想過要自殺,但整個描述的過程,卻不讓人覺得沉重,這點讓我很喜歡。隨著閱讀量和年齡的變化,對書籍的挑選和閱讀也開始越來越奇怪。一方麵,越來越認可和欣賞經典文學作品。另一方麵,對於冷門或邊緣話題的書籍開始產生濃厚興趣。
評分4/5 In her 'morbidly insightful' debut, Doughty demystifies the undertaking industry and, through her research into jaw-dropping death rituals and galore charnel anecdotes, brings us face to face with death.This book has the explosive power to shift our current death-denial culture and lead us into the Danse Macabre with peace, joy and celebration
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評分8岁那年,凯特琳亲眼目睹了一个小女孩,从二楼的电梯口砸向一楼的金属柜台,自此死亡恐惧的种子在凯特琳的心中埋下,用现在心理学上的名词来解释,她不幸遭受了创伤后应激障碍。意外之后,凯特琳由衷恐惧死亡但又怀有病态的好奇。青春期一度沉迷于哥特文化,为了解中世界的死亡...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025