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A Composition of Decomposition

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

February 10, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Last time you, me, and the other Caitlin who spells her name correctly met up, I was asking about what you wanted to happen to your body when you died. Remember?  A good time was had by all. This time I am not going to ask what you want to happen, because while Smoke Gets in Your Eyes does talk about what one can choose for their post-mortem adventures, it also gives a breakdown (cymbal crash) of what happens to a human body when it stops being […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty, california, cremation, Death, decomposition, dying, From Here to Eternity, Funeral home, funeral industry, humor, order of the good death, science

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:15 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty, california, cremation, Death, decomposition, dying, From Here to Eternity, Funeral home, funeral industry, humor, order of the good death, science ·
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Kids ask the darnedest things about decomposing bodies

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty

January 18, 2020 by KimMiE" 3 Comments

I am always on the lookout for science-y books that make science accessible to literature majors like myself. Bonus points if the topic is slightly quirky, such as brain abnormalities, digestive processes, or corpses. Because I’m a lucky gal, my husband also stays on the lookout for these types of books, and for Christmas he bought me Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? (Eat your hearts out, ladies!) I wasn’t familiar with Caitlin Doughty, but I soon learned that she is a New York Times best-selling […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty, cbr12, Death, decomposition, KimMiE", popular science, science

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty, cbr12, Death, decomposition, KimMiE", popular science, science ·
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