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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty · 2014
A young mortician's darkly funny and surprisingly moving memoir about working in a crematory. Doughty confronts mortality head-on and emerges with a passionate argument for death acceptance. Required reading for anyone curious about what happens to us after we die.
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