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Caitlin Doughty


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in O’ahu, Hawai’i, The United States
August 19, 1984

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Caitlin Doughty is a writer, documentarian, and death-industry reform advocate. She has written three New York Times bestsellers: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? and created the “Ask a Mortician” series. She lives in upstate New York.

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Archives of the Dead: Libraries as Unlikely Monuments

Libraries and archives – like the stone and bronze statues that we might traditionally categorize as monuments and memorials – are sites where memories are preserved, honoured, altered, or even deliberately removed. Their role in the creation and retention of individual, cultural, and collective memory makes them also prone to being sites of loss or grief, and other types of monuments also often a

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & O...

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“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”
Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said, “The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.”
Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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