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[Spanish] - ¿El gato se comerá mis ojos? (Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?): Y otras preguntas sobre cad
Cada día, la directora de funerarias Caitlin Doughty recibe docenas de preguntas sobre la muerte. Las mejores son las de los niños. ¿Qué le pasaría al cuerpo de un astronauta si lo empujaran desde un transbordador espacial? ¿Se hace caca al morir? ¿Puede la abuela celebrar un funeral vikingo? En '¿Se comerá mi gato mis ojos?', Doughty combina sus conocimientos funerarios sobre el cuerpo y la intrigante historia que se esconde tras las ideas erróneas más comunes sobre los cadáveres para ofrecer respuestas objetivas, divertidas y sinceras a treinta y cinco preguntas peculiares planteadas por sus fans más jóvenes. Con su inimitable enfoque, Doughty detalla la sabiduría y la ciencia de lo que ocurre con nuestros cuerpos después de morir. ¿Por qué gimen los cadáveres? ¿Qué hace que los cuerpos se coloreen durante la descomposición? ¿Y por qué el pelo y las uñas parecen más largos después de la muerte? Los lectores aprenderán cuál es la mejor tierra para momificar el cuerpo, si se puede conservar el cráneo de tu mejor amigo como recuerdo y qué ocurre cuando mueres en un avión. Bellamente ilustrado por Dianné Ruz, ¿Se comerá mi gato mis ojos? nos muestra que la muerte es ciencia y arte, y que sólo planteándonos preguntas podremos empezar a abrazarla.
Caitlin Doughty (Author), Pilar Corral (Narrator)
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to find the Good Death
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette- smoking, wish- granting human skulls), and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved- ones' bones from cremation ashes. With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. Featuring Gorey-esque illustrations by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning- including a glowing- Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre- and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals. Author bio: Mortician Caitlin Doughty--host and creator of "Ask a Mortician" and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes--founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and co-founded Death Salon. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA.
Caitlin Doughty (Author), Caitlin Doughty (Narrator)
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Fragen Sie Ihren Bestatter: Lektionen aus dem Krematorium
Der New York Times Bestseller! 'Caitlin Doughty ist wie eine Figur direkt aus Six Feet under' (Collectors Weekly) 'Doughtys unbekümmerte Kaltblütigkeit ist bewundernswert. Ich wette, sie macht einen ausgezeichneten Job. (The New York Times) 'Champion der alternativen Bestattungsindustrie' (Independent) 'Ein Muss für alle, die vorhaben zu sterben.' (Booklist) Caitlin Doughty ist Amerikas berühmteste Bestatterin. In ihrem Bestseller befreit sie den Tod von etlichen Tabus - und den Hörer von der Scheu, sich mit ihm zu beschäftigen. Den Vorhang zwischen hier und dort zu lüften kann nämlich ungemein befreiend wirken, vorausgesetzt, man hört einer mutigen Erzählerin zu, die die letzten Dinge anspricht, wie sie eben sind. Schon mit Anfang 20 weiß Caitlin, daß Tote ihre Berufung sind und sie beginnt nach ihrem Studium bei einem Krematorium zu arbeiten. Mit Humor und Offenherzigkeit erzählt sie von ihrem ungewöhnlichen Beruf, läßt teilhaben an höchst skurrilen Erlebnissen, philosophiert, gibt erfrischende Ratschläge - kurz: die beste Begleiterin durch beide Welten! Sandra Schwittau trifft den richtigen Ton zwischen Ernst und Lässigkeit für diese gelungene Mischung aus Schock, Humor und Weisheit.
Caitlin Doughty (Author), Sandra Schwittau (Narrator)
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty – a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre – took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. With an original voice that combines fearless curiosity and mordant wit, Caitlin tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters, gallows humor, and vivid characters (both living and very dead). Describing how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes), and cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes, Caitlin becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the deceased. Her eye-opening memoir shows how our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead). In the spirit of her popular Web series, “Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin’s engaging narrative style makes this otherwise scary topic both approachable and profound. “America’s (kinda dark) sweetheart” (Huffington Post)Caitlin Doughty, the host and creator of the “Ask a Mortician” Web series and the collective Order of the Good Death, is on a mission to change the way we think about death.
Caitlin Doughty (Author), Caitlin Doughty (Narrator)
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