{"title":"Books by Caitlin Doughty","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781474613415","title":"Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan we give Grandma a Viking funeral?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy don't animals dig up all the graves?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn strange colours during decomposition? and why do hair and nails appear longer after death? 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Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about, she started to wonder about the lives of those she cremated and the mourning families they left behind, and found herself confounded by people's erratic reactions to death. Exploring our death rituals - and those of other cultures - she pleads the case for healthier attitudes around death and dying. Full of bizarre encounters, gallows humour and vivid characters (both living and very dead), this illuminating account makes this otherwise terrifying subject inviting and fascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205054726322,"sku":"9781782111054","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781782111054_f4b76557-c1a4-43e4-8b52-ea9da563cf88.jpg?v=1786025416"},{"product_id":"9781474606530","title":"From Here to Eternity","description":"As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In \u003ci\u003eFrom Here to Eternity \u003c\/i\u003eshe sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning - including a futuristic glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan, a candlelit Mexican cemetery, and America's only open-air pyre. In doing so she expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with 'dignity' and reveals unexpected possibilities for our own death rituals.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56300453069173,"sku":"9781474606530","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781474606530_6a94c8de-5757-4be5-aa09-978ddbbeb541.jpg?v=1786020654"},{"product_id":"dead-in-the-water-1","title":"Dead in the Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eMillions of people trust Caitlin Doughty to explore dark subjects with empathy and humor. Now, in her most ambitious work to date, Doughty explains what actually happened to the 1,500 people who died the night of history's most famous shipwreck. Alongside white-knuckle tales of survival and mass death during the disaster, Doughty foregrounds the haunting stories of lesser-known victims, profiles the telegraph-cable-repairmen-turned-seafaring-undertakers who pulled the floating bodies from the wreck site in the North Atlantic, and explores how a salvage company came to control the human artifacts-shoes, hairbrushes-carried and worn by the dead passengers and crew. Along the way she shares the surprising science of death at sea, and how the \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e tragedy led to mass casualty protocols still used today. The first book of its kind on one of the most famous events in human history, \u003cem\u003eDead in the Water\u003c\/em\u003e explores how we face the void and accept (or refuse to accept) death in extreme conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499291877749,"sku":"9780393249934","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-caitlin-doughty.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}