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Best Selling Books by Caitlin Doughty

Caitlin Doughty is the author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2014), From Here to Eternity (2017), Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? (2019), Confissões do crematório (2018), Hasta las cenizas (2024).

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

release date: Sep 15, 2014
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
In this "morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller that launched the death positive movement, a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

From Here to Eternity

release date: Oct 03, 2017
From Here to Eternity
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

release date: Sep 10, 2019
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
New York Times bestseller Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award "Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential." —Marianne Eloise, Guardian Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death—Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.

Confissões do crematório

release date: Feb 28, 2018
Confissões do crematório
"Uma menina nunca esquece seu primeiro cadáver." – Caitlin Doughty Um livro para quem planeja morrer um dia. Morrer é a única certeza da vida. Então, por que evitamos tanto falar sobre ela? A morte é inevitável, sentimos muito. Mas pelo menos, como descobriu Caitlin Doughty, ficar a sete palmos do chão ainda é uma opção. ''''Confissões do Crematório'''' reúne histórias reais do dia a dia de uma casa funerária, inúmeras curiosidades e fatos históricos, mitológicos e filosóficos. Tudo, é claro, com uma boa dose de humor. Enquanto varre as cinzas das máquinas de incineração ou explica com o que um crânio em chamas se parece, Caitlin Doughty desmistifica a morte para si e para seus leitores. O livro de Caitlin – criadora da websérie Ask a Mortician e da – levanta a cortina preta que nos separa dos bastidores dos funerais e nos faz refletir sobre a vida e a morte de maneira honesta, inteligente e despretensiosa – exatamente como deve ser. Como a autora ressalta na nota que abre o livro, "a ignorância não é uma benção, é apenas uma forma profunda de terror". Caitlin Doughty é agente funerária, escritora e mantém um canal no YouTube onde fala com bom humor sobre a morte e as práticas da indústria funerária. É criadora da websérie Ask a Mortician, fundadora do grupo The Order of the Good Death (que une profissionais, acadêmicos e artistas para falar sobre a mortalidade) e também autora de Confissões do Crematório.

Hasta las cenizas

release date: Apr 24, 2024
Hasta las cenizas
Caitlin Doughty tenía poco más de veinte años y un diploma reciente en Historia medieval cuando aceptó un trabajo en un crematorio. Un trabajo como cualquier otro, sobre todo si desde siempre has sentido cierta atracción por lo macabro. Y lo que iba a ser algo temporal acabó convirtiéndose no solo en el trabajo de su vida, sino en una forma de comprender -y reírse- de la muerte. Este insólito libro nos sumerge en la hermética cultura de quienes cuidan de los difuntos para dejarnos escenas inolvidables y datos que nunca creímos que podíamos conocer: ¿un cadáver puede contagiarnos una enfermedad? ¿Cuántos cuerpos caben en una furgoneta? ¿Qué aspecto tiene una calavera en llamas? Rodeada de cadáveres que han llegado allí por las más diversas causas, Doughty nos conduce a través del mundo de los muertos para contarnos cómo barría las cenizas de las máquinas (y a veces sobre su ropa), la secreta historia de la cremación y la inhumación, e incluso nos ilustra acerca de las prácticas funerarias de diferentes culturas. Honesto y sincero, autocrítico y cómicamente irónico, Caitlin Doughty convierte un tema tabú como la muerte en algo corriente y, por extraño que parezca, fascinante.

De aquí a la eternidad

release date: Apr 27, 2020
De aquí a la eternidad
Fascinada por nuestro miedo generalizado a los cadáveres, la tanatopractora Caitlin Doughty se propuso descubrir cómo se preocupan otras culturas por los muertos. De aquí a la eternidad es un viaje global y envolvente que introduce rituales convincentes y poderosos casi desconocidos. En una zona rural de Indonesia, ve a un hombre limpiar y vestir el cuerpo momificado de su abuelo, que permanece en la casa de la familia durante dos años. En La Paz, se encuentra con las "natitas bolivianas" (cráneos humanos para fumar cigarrillos que otorgan deseos), y en Tokio se encuentra con la ceremonia japonesa de kotsuage, en la que los familiares usan palillos para extraer los huesos de sus seres queridos de las cenizas de la cremación. Con curiosidad ilimitada y humor negro, Doughty investiga la historia funeraria del mundo y examina diversas tradiciones, desde el Día de Muertos de México hasta el entierro del cielo de Zoroastro, que nos ayudan a ver nuestras costumbres mortuorias bajo una nueva luz. Exquisitamente ilustrado por Landis Blair, es una aventura hacia lo mórbido y desconocido, una historia sobre las muchas formas fascinantes en que la gente en todas partes ha enfrentado el desafío humano de la mortalidad.

Fragen Sie Ihren Bestatter

release date: Jan 21, 2016

Was passiert, wenn ich tot bin?

release date: Aug 27, 2020
Was passiert, wenn ich tot bin?
Kinder fragen klar, offen und ehrlich nach dem Tod. Und genauso muss man ihnen auch antworten. Das ist zumindest die Überzeugung von Caitlin Doughty. Die berühmteste Bestatterin der Welt beantwortet in ihrem Buch ganz ungeschminkt Fragen von Kindern, die Erwachsene nicht zu stellen wagen. Aber auch sie dürfen dieses kurzweilige, profunde Buch über den Tod lesen - zur Not auch heimlich. Jeden Tag erhält Caitlin Doughty Dutzende von Fragen über den Tod, und die besten kommen von Kindern. Sieht man ein weißes Licht, wenn man stirbt? Kann mein Körper noch sprechen, wenn ich tot bin? Was passiert mit einem toten Astronauten im Weltraum? In ihrem unnachahmlich lockeren, immer respektvollen Ton beantwortet die Bestatterin 34 kluge Fragen ihrer jüngsten Fans und bietet so nicht nur Kindern einen Blick hinter den schwarzen Vorhang aus Tabus und Verdruckstheiten. Sie erklärt, was passiert, wenn man stirbt, wie die geliebten Haustiere mit der Leiche ihres Menschen umgehen und was mit unseren gestorbenen Liebsten passiert, wenn man sie aufbahrt, verbrennt, beerdigt oder im Weltraum verliert. Ein hilfreicher Türöffner für alle, die mit Kindern (oder mit sich selbst) ganz unverkrampft über den Tod reden wollen.

死後,貓會吃掉我的眼睛嗎?

release date: Oct 11, 2021
死後,貓會吃掉我的眼睛嗎?
Solve the mystery of death in a serious and humorous manner, and let you take your last breath with a smile! Strip away the poetry and explore the intriguing world after death. Have you ever heard of dead bodies moving after death? Will the ashes of overweight people be heavier? What if one of the Siamese twins dies?

Những câu hỏi lớn từ người phàm trần tí hon về cái chết

release date: Jun 01, 2022
Những câu hỏi lớn từ người phàm trần tí hon về cái chết
The book BIG QUESTIONS FROM THE LITTLE PEOPLE ABOUT DEATH will bring knowledge related to "death" through "strange" questions, such as: What does a corpse smell like. ? What will happen if I die in space?... All will be summed up and answered by author Caitlin - an expert, death speaker of NPR and famous in many parts of the world. This book cannot make death a joyful experience, but it will make understanding more about death more enjoyable. Can you know how to preserve your body in amber like prehistoric insects? Or after death, will the pizza just eaten be digested or not? Even death is the sum total of science, history, art, literature, the bridge of all cultures, from the presentation of scientific experiments from ancient times to the presentation of scientific experiments. Showcasing the peak art of mummification of the ancient Egyptians or the Viking funeral. So, don''t be too afraid of death but face your own curiosity, maybe you will know more interesting and interesting things!

¿El gato se comerá mis ojos?

release date: Jan 01, 2023

從此刻到永恆

release date: Aug 01, 2018
從此刻到永恆
Traditional Chinese edition of From Here to Eternity?Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Untitled on the Titanic

release date: Sep 10, 2026
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