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4.27 AVERAGE
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I really appreciated Caitlin's honesty - with her own mental health struggles, with her own growth and setbacks with the topic of death. She is simultaneously honest and respectful.
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Summary: Caitlin Doughty has worked close to death in various capacities for years, and, in this memoir, the relates her experiences and reflections upon working with the dead and the living who tend to them. She shares a behind-the-scenes look at the current practices of death work in America and offers her thoughts on the ways that those practices—mostly focused on distancing the average person from the realities of death—are socially and emotionally damaging. She leaves readers with some ideas about how we might engage with death in healthier ways as a society.
Picked this up on a whim but I really enjoyed it.
Anyone who will one day die or know someone who will die should read this book. It articulates and addresses a number of fears, misconceptions, and trends in the death industry and deal with them in a clear sensible manner. Her cultural reflections on what death means to the individual and society at large are important and have put words to things that have bothered me for awhile and offered a balm of other ways of thinking about and planning for death. Thank goodness.
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Author seems to think everyone's relationship with death should look exactly like hers. I enjoyed it when she wasn't constantly passing judgement upon others.
She doesn't really talk about her life outside of her work, which I think is a problem when you're being prescriptive about how people experience death. Are you comfortable with death because you have no life outside of it?
How can death be respected or known without a full appreciation of life and why people feel so attached to theirs?
Worth reading, but nothing special.
She doesn't really talk about her life outside of her work, which I think is a problem when you're being prescriptive about how people experience death. Are you comfortable with death because you have no life outside of it?
How can death be respected or known without a full appreciation of life and why people feel so attached to theirs?
Worth reading, but nothing special.