072 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Julia and Victoria contemplate mortality (and whether they could be buried under paper trees to become books in their next lives) with the help of the darkly comic memoir Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty about a young woman trying to become a mortician and revolutionize the way Americans handle death.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

• The Office

• Parks and Recreation

• The Order of the Good Death, website

• “Ask a Mortician” YouTube series

• From Here to Eternity, book by Doughty

• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs, book by Doughty

• The Nightmare Before Christmas

• Keaton Henson, musician

• Giri / Haji, on Netflix

• Omnivore’s Dilemma, book by Michael Pollan - listen to our episode here!

• Science Mike from the podcast, The Cozy Robot Show

• “Stories of the Pandemic” Book Club minisode - listen here!

• The Great British Baking Show

Recommendations:

• “Dark,” comedy special by Daniel Sloss

• Institute of Human Anatomy YouTube channel

• “Movement to bring death closer,” episode/article from The Daily/New York Times

• Tale for the Time Being, book by Ruth Ozeki

Currently Obsessed:

• Perfect Sounds, podcast

• Laura Mvula, musician