Caitlin Doughty

Morbid and illuminating (Entertainment Weekly) a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession."

And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Nicole Hobson

Mari

Amelia

Because of superstition, unquestioned even among those who should know better, this woman wasn't given the opportunity to sit with her mother until, as a friend of mine put it, her grieving "felt.. her chance for closure. A corpse doesn't need you to remember it. In fact, it doesn't need anything anymore-it's more than happy to lie there and rot away. It is you who needs the corpse. Looking at the body you understand the person is gone, no longer an active player in the game of life. Looking at the body you see yourself, and you know that you, too, will die. The visual is a call to self-awareness. It is the beginning of wisdom. done, somehow.

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