Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

And Other Lessons from the Crematory

272 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2016 by Canongate Books.

ISBN:
978-1-78211-105-4
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OCLC Number:
907564972

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4 stars (2 reviews)

The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she sometimes got ashes on her clothes and how she cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes.

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"This need for meaning is why some believe in an intricate system of potential afterlives, others believe sacrificing a certain animal on a certain day leads to healthy crops, and still others believe the world will end when a ship constructed with the untrimmed nails of the dead arrives carrying a corpse army to do battle with the gods at the end of days. (Norse mythology will always be the most metal, sorry.)"

Subjects

  • Undertakers and undertaking