by Caitlin Doughty
Mortician Caitlin Doughty recounts her years at a San Francisco crematory to argue that the industrialized, sanitized American death-care system alienates us from mortality in ways that damage both the living and the dead. She calls for a revival of hands-on, family-centreed death practices as a form of psychological and cultural repair.
In this collection, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory references 3 other books.
It draws on The Denial of Death, Man's Search for Meaning and The Myth of Sisyphus.
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Doughty has publicly credited Becker's Denial of Death as the book that gave her the philosophical framework for her work, and its terror-management argument anchors her critique of death-avoidance
Draws on Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning in arguing that confronting death is what makes life meaningful, rather than an obstacle to meaning
Resonates with Camus's Myth of Sisyphus absurdist confrontation with mortality, which Doughty invokes as the alternative to medicalized denial
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