![]() ![]() She deftly restyles the often taboo topic into an approachable and perceptive memoir about her profession in a crematorium. In her book, she unreservedly chews over the topic of “Death” in breadth – an in-depth sharing of the American customs in crematory, a brief exploration other culture’s procession in crematory, an exposition of the process of decomposing and the economy of funeral services among other topics such as child mortality, embalming process, suicide and organ donation. Not in Catilin Doughty’s “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”. Ironically, for a host of reasons from cultural restrictions, societal etiquette to irrational superstitions, we eschew the macabre topic of Death. We begin dying the very moment we are born. That death is an eventuality in every Man’s life is an irrefutable truth. “Remember, O man, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” (Genesis 3:19) ![]()
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