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A little more casual than her other books, a little more of stuff that felt like filler just because I've seen every episode of her YouTube series. But well written, accessible, entertaining, and exactly what it needed to be. Keep em coming, Caitlin.
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Graphic: Death, Gore
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No, but she, and your dog will eat your mouth, tongue, and neck. You won’t auto-pop in space, but pass out immediately, and then will suffocate on your own blood and gases. Plus, it’d cost a lot less to just let your body stay in space rather than bring it home — as Doughty reminds us, it can cost $12,000 to cremate someone, which she always asserts is unhinged. I love what a death advocate she is, which is why I dived into this so hard after her other book, From Here to Eternity. I was really surprised by the variety of laws around abuse of a corpse, sale of human remains, and the legal loopholes one would need to navigate to say, keep their parent’s skull after death. Let alone skeletonization (de-fleshing!!)! Speaking of which, the process of putrefaction sounds disgusting, but I love Doughty’s enthusiasm for all the colors. And for delineating the process of cremation; I didn’t figure that most folks fit the same size urns because you’re just giving a box of bone powder back. I also learned that cremation burns out all the DNA from the corpse (hence why it was such a good way to commit or cover up a crime) but I thought it was really cool that elements flight, whether and you were a vegetarian, or took multivitamins could still inform the composition of your ashes. There are a lot of really straightforward, common sense questions that I didn’t know the answer to herein as well, like will you inevitably shit yourself when you die (not uncommon, but not til after rigor), whether or not your landlord needs to tell you if someone died in your home before you rented or bought it (generally, you gotta ask), and things like that. There were also a lot of references to things I know about from the X-Files, the Cheng and Eng, the original Siamese twins, or the risk of prion disease when eating humans’ brains, rendered in a more specific, scientific context. As ever, Doughty is hilarious, empathetic, informative, super encouraging of all these types of questions, and a staunch advocate for the after death treatment people want.
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Worth every single penny and every bit of your time! I laughed (a lot), glued to the page with absolutely every page turn.
Nu, pisica nu o să îți mănânce ochii. Cel puțin nu imediat.
Nu-ți face griji, Tomiță Miaunescu n-a stat la pândă în tot timpul acesta, uitându-se la tine din spatele canapelei și așteptând ca tu să-ți dai ultima suflare și să își zică: Spartani! Deseară luăm cina în iad!
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Nu-ți face griji, Tomiță Miaunescu n-a stat la pândă în tot timpul acesta, uitându-se la tine din spatele canapelei și așteptând ca tu să-ți dai ultima suflare și să își zică: Spartani! Deseară luăm cina în iad!
O carte interesantă dar pe alocuri cu prea multe facts pentru gustul meu (gustul meu fiind facts spre deloc