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SHOW SPONSOR SHGAPE & The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraI have never thought of funeral directors as the preservationists of Gilded Age architecture, but they are. Thanks to Dr. Dean Lampros's cross-disciplinary research on the cultural history of these residential funeral parlours we see the remnants of the Gilded Age in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dean joins me to discuss his new book, and the amazing research he has compiled.Essential Reading:Dean Lampros, Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America (2024).Recommended Reading:Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death (1963). Stephen Prothero, Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America (2002).Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2004).Gary Laderman, Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America (2005).Marilyn Yalom, The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds (2008).Suzanne Smith, To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death (2010).Michael Rosenow, Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865 – 1920 (2015).Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (2018). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Giddy-up folks, we are talking about everyone's favorite topic: DEATH. I loved talking with Kierston about all things death, funeral practices from around the world, grief, and love. Kierston is a library customer services supervisor and loves to read, especially books that teach her something new. You can follow her beautifully curated Instagram: @oursharedshelves For our discussion Kierston chose From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty, a mortician who is fascinated by death. There are so many different funeral and burial practices around the world and this book explores many of them. For our drink we went witha beer: the Rogue Dead Guy Ale, which is delicious and a great choice to go along with the title.In this episode:Ask a Mortician - Caitlin Doughty's YouTube Human Remains Project in Cullowhee NC (Correction: In the pod I misremembered this program being at UNC Pembroke - It's at Western Carolina University. Apologies to the entire UNC school system!)Congratulations! The Best is Over by R. Eric Thomas Celebrating Dia de los Muertos in Mexico
In this special Samhain episode, I talk about end-of-life and the after-life from a very human perspective, honoring the dead and the details of my family's ancestor feast, also known as a “dumb supper”, and calling upon the dead to assist us in our witchcraft. This is a lot of information packed into about 17 minutes!I reference several books that you may want to check out:Being Mortal by Atul GawandeFrom Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin DoughtyThe Sacred Herbs of Samhain: Plants to Contact the Spirits of the Dead by Ellen Evert HopmanThe Bones Fall in a Spiral: A Necromantic Primer by MortellusBe sure to follow me on my substack site for all my witchcraft tips and tricks. You can subscribe for free at lilithamberly.substack.com. For a low monthly fee of $8 you can support my work and have access to ALL my content, including courses, videos, and community. Witch Life with Lilith Amberly is a reader-supported publication. To receive access to all my content and to support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to Witch Life with Lilith Amberly at lilithamberly.substack.com/subscribe
In this special episode of The World Next Week, Rosa Brooks, the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy and professor at Georgetown University Law Center, joins Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to discuss the books they recommend reading, the books they're looking forward to reading, and other entertainment they're enjoying this summer. Mentioned on the Podcast Carla's Picks Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” Bob's Picks Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Douglas Smith, The Story of a Life Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow “Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift,” Conversations with Tyler Rosa's Picks Alex Mar, Seventy Times Seven: A True Story Of Murder And Mercy George Black, Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone John Linson and Taylor Sheridan, “Yellowstone” Additional Books, Podcasts, Shows, and Games Mentioned on the Podcast John Adams, Doctor Atomic Edward Berger, “All Quiet on the Western Front” Tyler Cowen, “Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide” Joan Didion, The White Album Craig Mazin, “The Last of Us” Pong Sam Shaw, “Manhattan” Frank Spotnitz, “The Man in the High Castle” Fred Zinnemann, “From Here to Eternity” For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw-special-what-read-summer-2023 This episode first aired: July 6, 2023
In this special episode of The World Next Week, Rosa Brooks, the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy and professor at Georgetown University Law Center, joins Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to discuss the books they recommend reading, the books they're looking forward to reading, and other entertainment they're enjoying this summer. Mentioned on the Podcast Carla's Picks Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” Bob's Picks Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Douglas Smith, The Story of a Life Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow “Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift,” Conversations with Tyler Rosa's Picks Alex Mar, Seventy Times Seven: A True Story Of Murder And Mercy George Black, Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone John Linson and Taylor Sheridan, “Yellowstone” Additional Books, Podcasts, Shows, and Games Mentioned on the Podcast John Adams, Doctor Atomic Edward Berger, “All Quiet on the Western Front” Tyler Cowen, “Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide” Joan Didion, The White Album Craig Mazin, “The Last of Us” Pong Sam Shaw, “Manhattan” Frank Spotnitz, “The Man in the High Castle” Fred Zinnemann, “From Here to Eternity” For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw-special-what-read-summer-2023
Though the Holidays and New Year may bring happiness and excitement to some; for others...it brings fear, anxiety, loss, and much more. This week we dive deep into loss and how to process it in a healthier way. This show will help you and those you love! So, you will not want to miss it! Links for what was discussed... Crisis Text Line Sign up to be an Organ Donor The Story of the Little Soul and The Sun Ask a Mortician YouTube Channel From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Infinite thanks to ALL of you for listening! I pray you find what you are looking/searching for - and more - here! Please keep listening and share the show with as many people as you feel it would benefit/help! If you would like to make an offering to the show. I created a "wish list" on Amazon.com. It's a never-ending gift, so to speak. Please do not feel obligated, in any way. Some have asked for ways to make offerings to/for the show. This is it. Here's the link to the show's wish list... Faith and More Podcast Wish List Check out our website!! This is an incredibly easy way to access the show, show notes, listen to the show, request prayers, and contact me! https://faithandmorepodcast.wixsite.com/my-site Our YouTube channel: Faith and More Podcast Contact me at... faithandmorepodcast@gmail.com #loss #fear #anxiety #suffering #death #health #unconditionallove #angels #nondenominational #wellness #prayer #meditation #mentalhealth #faith #love #hope #divine #blessing #blessings #positive #staystrong #digdeep #life #spiritual #spiritualhealth #trust #faithandmore #faithandmorepodcast #revangeleswise #angelwise #inclusive #accepting #unity #peace #interfaith --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/faith-and-more/message
This episode we're talking about Anthropology Non-Fiction! We discuss culture, society, linguistics, and more! Plus: Teeth, teeth, teeth! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1 by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King Other Media We Mentioned The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners by Paul Beck, Edward Mast, and Perry Tapper Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulić The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Ellen Meloy The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Wikipedia) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Wikipedia) Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins by Peter Ungar Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas Links, Articles, and Things Four-field approach (Wikipedia) “known jocularly to students as "stones", "tones", "bones" and "thrones"” Anthropologie (Wikipedia) Lidar (Wikipedia) Episode 144 - What is a Book? I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to | Unraveled Franz Boas (Wikipedia) Data dredging (Wikipedia) Ella Cara Deloria (Wikipedia) 15 Anthropology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures by Christian Allaire Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang Dakota Texts by Ella Cara Deloria Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran by Niloofar Haeri Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts by Margaret Kovach Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana by Kwame Edwin Otu Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities by Paul Seesequasis Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis edited by Jesook Song and Laam Hae Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley Thangaraj From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i by Haunani-Kay Trask Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Then on Tuesday, March 15th we'll be talking about Bookish Food & Drink (Mixing Food, Drinks, and Books)! Join us again on Tuesday, April 5th when we'll be discussing the genre of Contemporary Fantasy!
This is the unedited conversation with Max Walling about Caitlin Doughty's book "From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death."
A conversation with Max Walling about Caitlin Doughty's book "From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death."
Di Amerika Serikat, kematian tak lagi menjadi suatu hal yang intim dan personal ; Caitlin Doughty, seorang mortician, bertolak ke berbagai penjuru dunia dengan satu tekad utama: mencari kematian yang "baik". Dalam perjalanannya, Ia menemukan beragam alternatif dalam menyikapi kematian, yang bisa kalian pelajari dalam audio book summary Binokular yang satu ini!
Liz & Carolyn read the internet's most “stuffy” questions and useless answers about the Victorian Era - including “What are some things that were acceptable in Victorian times that we would find disgusting?” and “Why did Queen Victoria despise children?” Got a topic suggestion? Contact us at wewantanswerspod@gmail.com or visit www.wewantanswerspod.com to fill out our contact form. Follow us on Instagram @wewantanswerspod, and please rate & review our little newborn baby podcast!Links relevant to this episode:Caitlin Doughty - the incredible mortician and activist. Don't miss her amazing and super educational YouTube channel! We highly recommend all of her books:Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the CrematoryFrom Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good DeathWill My Cats Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead BodiesThe Casketeers (IMDB) - Watch it on Netflix! Maori funeral directors Francis and Kaiora Tipene and staff temper good humor with care and respect as they help Polynesian families cope with loss.
This episode we’re reading Sociology Non-Fiction! We discuss the differences between sociology and psychology, what Karl Marx and Aziz Ansari have in common, the over-educated but kind-of-broke worker, and the difficulties of reading books that make us both sad and angry. Plus: Pandemic Monkey Brains! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner Things We Read (or tried to read) From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks (this is better than Matthew implied in the episode, it is worth reading) Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon Other Media We Mentioned The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshona Zuboff Disasters: A Sociological Approach by Kathleen Tierney The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity by Elizabeth Hallam, Glennys Howarth, Jenny Hockey The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlamn Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll Death of Sandra Bland (Wikipedia) Food Mirages in Guelph, Ontario: The Impacts of Limited Food Accessibility and Affordability on Low-income Residents by Benjamin Reeve (not mentioned during the episode, but this is someone’s actual sociology thesis that Matthew thinks is neat) Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication by Nancy M. Henley (Amanda meant to mention this book but forgot!) Links, Articles, and Things Where Do Librarians Come From? Examining Educational Diversity in Librarianship by Rachel Ivy Clarke (I think this is way less humanities-focussed than our program was…) Michel Foucault (Wikipedia) Dr. Thomas Kemple Readers' Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook Group) JUMPSUIT - “Jumpsuit: how to make a personal uniform for the end of capitalism” Code Switch (NPR Podcast) Louder Than A Riot (NPR Podcast) According to Need (99% Invisible Podcast) Sabrina and Friends: Answers in Progress How Conspiracy Theories Work (a good example of a video showing the research process) Trader Joe's (Wikipedia) What does it mean to be working class in Canada? (Macleans article) 15 Sociology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America edited by by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles by Rocío Rosales Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Venkatesh Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Watch us Stream! Our Twitch channel - Fridays in January, 9pm Eastern Our YouTube channel - Recordings of streams Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 19th when we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021! Then on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance!
November is Non-Fiction November. I have my husband Jesse joining me this week to talk about some non-fiction about death or the death industry. If you want more non-fiction recommendations, you can check out the first time we did Non-Fiction Horror Episode with ABookOlive. Shownotes This week's sponsor: The Tear Collector by Shawn Burgess Pre-Order at Amazon and Barnes & Nobles Books Mentioned: Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and TJ Mitchell From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson
In time for Día de los Muertos, Polli and Kate discuss a book about what it means to have a "good death" in many places around the world. Through Caitlin Doughty's From Here to Eternity, they encounter death houses, glowing Buddhas, Snow White-esque caskets, revered Angelitos, and more. Join us on an enlightening and surprisingly uplifting journey. Show notes: https://lplks.org/blogs/post/049-whats-a-good-death-to-you Bookish News: Local bookstore owner, Danny Caine, wins Midwest Bookseller of the Year! If you missed our interview with him in an earlier episode, here ya go! Two Book Minimum: The Library Book by Susan Orlean Death's Acre by Bill Bass She Said/She Said: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty We all have different ideas of what makes a "good life" -- different measures of success and accomplishment and happiness. The same goes for what makes a "good death," as Caitlin Doughty points out in From Here to Eternity. Known also for her first book, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory, and more recent Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death, Doughty is a mortician, funeral director, and death acceptance advocate. Polli and Kate talk about "good deaths" and what this means across the globe according to some of Caitlin Doughty's stories. They also talk about their own personal feelings on death and dying, and invite you to do the same in the comments! “Insist on going to the cremation, insist on going to the burial. Insist on being involved, even if it is just brushing your mother’s hair as she lies in her casket. Insist on applying her favorite shade of lipstick, the one she wouldn’t dream of going to the grave without. Insist on cutting a small lock of her hair to place in a locket or a ring. Do not be afraid. These are human acts, acts of bravery and love in the face of death and loss.” ― Caitlin Doughty What's happening in Lawrence? Paper Plains Literary Festival is coming next spring! Check the link for the lineup and more details. -------------------------------- 2019 Book Squad Goals Reading Challenge can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/LPLBSG2019 Twice(-ish) a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. This episode was produced by Jim Barnes in the Sound & Vision studio. Our theme song is by Heidi Lynne Gluck. You can find the Book Squad Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud. Please subscribe and leave us comments – we’d love to know what you think, and your comments make it easier for other people to find our podcast. Happy reading and listening! xo, Polli & Kate
In this episode—not for the faint of heart—Rachel and Melody discuss deep questions about death, dying, and decomposition! Check out what we talked about: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory" by Caitlin Doughty with readalike "From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death" by the same author. Also, Caitlin's YouTube channel Ask a Mortician, website OrderoftheGoodDeath.com, Ted Talk "A Burial Practice That Nourishes the Planet", and podcast Death in the Afternoon. "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach with readalike "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal" by the same author, as well as podcast This Podcast Will Kill You by Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke. 2010 film "Third Star" featuring Benedict Cumberbatch (also known as Benedryl Cabbagepatch, Bandicoot Crashington, Buttercup Catapult . . . you get the idea). Netflix show "Endgame" with watchalikes "Extremis" and BJ Miller's Ted Talk "What Really Matters at the End of Life." Check out books, movies, and other materials through the Milwaukee County Federated Library System: https://countycat.mcfls.org/ https://www.hoopladigital.com/ https://wplc.overdrive.com/ https://oakcreeklibrary.org/
Welcome to Everything Trying to Kill You, the comedy podcast that talks about horror movies! For episode 35, join Maegan, Mary Kay, Mary as they discuss Mary Lambert’s Pet Sematary. They answer questions like these: What dead person would you resurrect to have a conversation with? What did Teddy Roosevelt’s office smell like? What makes Pet Sematary scary? Does the dead baby sound like a very drunk Mary Kay on helium? What was wrong with he acting in this movie? Why was everything so low-stakes? What makes graveyards so scary? What’s so frustrating about confirmation bias? Do you buy that Louis Creed is an actual doctor? What’s Stephen King’s best movie? Why isn’t there an ambulance to take Pascal to the hospital? Does this Native American curse trope work, or no? What type of reanimated corpses are these? Why didn’t George Romero direct this film? Why or why not are the reanimated corpses in this movie effective? Do we like these special effects? What is a hoe bath? What is PeeWee’s word of the day? Why are humans so inherently afraid of dying? What is the best frozen treat? If you were buried in this very quickly-decomposing ground, what part of you would decompose both? Pet Sematary (1989) – Directed by Mary Lambert and written by Stephen KingGenre: Horror, Supernatural, Thriller, SuspenseWhere to watch: AmazonSummary: Doctor Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) moves his family to Maine, where he meets a friendly local named Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne). After the Creeds' cat is accidentally killed, Crandall advises Louis to bury it in the ground near the old pet cemetery. The cat returns to life, its personality changed for the worse. When Louis' son, Gage (Miko Hughes), dies tragically, Louis decides to bury the boy's body in the same ground despite the warnings of Crandall and Louis' visions of a deceased patient.Links:From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Jess Bergman (@jesslbergman), Features Editor at Literary Hub, joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss her essay "The Difficult Business of Dying" from The New Republic in December 2017. In the essay, Jess weaves together her own experience of mourning her father with Caitlin Doughty's book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which examines the funeral industry in the United States as well as mourning rituals across cultures.
Jess Bergman (@jesslbergman), Features Editor at Literary Hub, joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss her essay "The Difficult Business of Dying" from The New Republic in December 2017. In the essay, Jess weaves together her own experience of mourning her father with Caitlin Doughty's book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which examines the funeral industry in the United States as well as mourning rituals across cultures.
I am so happy to have Caitlin Doughty as my guest on Episode 4. Caitlin is a licensed funeral director and the owner of Undertaking LA, a funeral home in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of Death Salon and the founder of The Order of the Good Death. She is the host of Ask a Mortician, which is a highly entertaining series of videos on YouTube (my favorite is the one on Viking burials). Caitlin is also the author of TWO best-selling books – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, in which she discusses her experience working in a crematory, and From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which was published last year. In this episode of Death, et seq., Caitlin discusses what the death positive movement IS. In this blog post, she explains what the death positive movement IS NOT. Discussion topics: ⇒ Defining "death positivism" ⇒ What kind of pushback Caitlin receives, and what parts of her message resonate broadly ⇒ How social justice is an integral part of the death positive movement ⇒ Caitlin's relationship with the funeral industry ⇒ What each of us can do to be more death positive on a daily basis For more extensive show notes and to submit questions, please visit our website at www.deathetseq.com.
It’s time for our Best of 2017 episode! We’ll talk about our favourite things we read for the podcast, our favourite things we read that weren’t for the podcast, and lots more! Please note, while many of the titles we recommend were published in 2017, this is our list of best of that we read in 2017, so there is some older material on the list as well. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Top Book Club Picks Non-Fiction Anna The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Jessi The Witches: Salem, 1692 (2016) by Stacy Schiff (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks) Matthew Prose: The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA (2017) by Doug Mack (Episode 039 - Non-Fiction Travel) Comic: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (2017) by Nagata Kabi (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Meghan In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote, narrated by Scott Brick (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks) Fiction Anna Death in the Vines (2013) by M.L. Longworth (Episode 025 - Detective Fiction) The Snowman (2011) by Jo Nesbø (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)) Jessi Stardust (1998) by Neil Gaiman (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)) Matthew Prose: Autonomous (2017) by Annalee Newitz (Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction) Comic: Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind (1982-1994) by Hayao Miyazaki (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)) Meghan The City and the City (2009) by China Miéville (Episode 025 - Detective Fiction) Top Non-Book Club Picks Non-Fiction Anna American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land (2017) by Monica Hesse Jessi Tomboy Survival Guide (2016) by Ivan Coyote (we mention this one in Episode 021 - Coming-of-Age and Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Matthew Prose: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate (2017) by Zoe Quinn (mentioned in Episode 032.5 - BookExpo America and the American Library Association Annual Conference) Comic: Lighter than my Shadow (2017) by Katie Green (Episode 040 - Precipitation in Video Games) Meghan Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues (2016) in Canada by Chelsea Vowel Métis in Space podcast with Chelsea Vowel and Molly Swain Fiction Anna The Queen of Blood (2016) by Sarah Beth Durst (Episode 040 - Precipitation in Video Games) Jessi The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) by Katherine Arden (mentioned in Episode 034 - Reading Resolutions) Matthew Prose: Red Spider White Web (1990) by Misha (mentioned in Episode 034 - Reading Resolutions) Comic: Giant Days (2015-present) by John Allison and Max Sarin Meghan Next Year for Sure (2017) by Zoey Leigh Peterson Other recommendations Anna From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Lucky Penny (2016) by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota (Episode 021 - Coming-of-Age) Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us: A Johnny Wander Collection (2017) by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (2016) by Patrick Phillips The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016) edited by Jesmyn Ward The Fire Next Time (1992) by James Baldwin Clean Sweep (2013) by Ilona Andrews (and the rest of that series) Spill Zone, vol. 1 (2017) by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland Volume 2 is being serialized as a webcomic (frustratingly the site seems to be setup so that you cannot link directly to pages, so to get to the beginning of volume two hit the previous chapter link a few times) HiLo, vol. 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth (2015) by Judd Winick Here’s the full panel (Read-Alikes: What to Suggest When They've Already Read Smile & The Walking Dead) from the Comics Conference for Educators and Librarians that Anna mentioned Jessi Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (2014) by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell Queers Were Here: Heroes & Icons of Queer Canada (2016) edited by Robin Ganev and RJ Gilmour (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Green River, Running Red (2007) by Ann Rule (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks) The Hating Game (2016) by Sally Thorne (Episode 028 - Accidental Romance) Matthew Three Parts Dead (2012) by Max Gladstone (Episode 33 - Legal Thrillers) True Grit (1968) by Charles Portis (Episode 29 - Westerns) The Sisters Brothers (2011) by Patrick deWitt (Episode 29 - Westerns) No Mercy, vol. 2 (2016) by Alex de Campi, Carla Speed McNeil, and Jenn Manley Lee (specifically issue #9) Matthew’s longer list of favorite comics he read in 2017 is below Meghan Turning (2017) by Jessica J. Lee (Non-fiction memoir) See What I Have Done (2017) by Sarah Schmidt (Fictionalized true crime) Dreams of Shreds and Tatters (2015) by Amanda Downum (New Weird) Need for the Bike (2011) by Paul Fournel, translated by Allan Stoekl (non-fic BICYCLES) Blue Light Yokohama (2017) by Nicolás Obregón (Mystery) Matthew’s List of Top Comics he Read in 2017 that weren’t his top picks (Anna’s recommendations were also good!) Monstress vols. 1-2 by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (2016-2017) This is an insanely epic (and beautiful) fantasy. You should read it! No Mercy, vol. 2 (2016) by Alex de Campi, Carla Speed McNeil, and Jenn Manley Lee No, I haven’t read volume 3 yet... Omega Men: The End is Here (2016) by Tom King, Barnaby Bagenda, Toby Cyprus, and Ig Guara Invincible vols. 23-24 (2017) by by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, Ryan Ottley, and Nathan Fairbairn It’s superheroes meet Dragonball Z, except much bloodier. It’s ending with volume 25, and I’m kind of sad about that. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2016) by Sonny Liew Despite really liking this, I don’t think it should have won the Eisner for “Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia” The Private Eye (2015) by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente As much as I enjoyed this, I don’t think the hardcover is worth $50. 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank (2017) by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss I was supplied with a review copy by the publishers. Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea (2017) by Mike Mignola and Gary Gianni Delicious in Dungeon vol. 1 (2017) by Ryoko Kui Yowamushi Pedal vols. 3-4 (2016) by Wataru Watanabe Bicycles! Demon vols. 1-4 (2016-2017) by Jason Shiga The first volume is the best and, to be honest, this series is kind of gross, so be warned... Order of the Stick: How the Paladin Got His Scar (2017) by Rich Burlew This was a reward only given to backers of the 2012 Kickstarter so you can’t actually buy or read it, but it’s really good! Questions What were your favourite reads of 2017? What would you recommend to us? Is there a supernatural gardening book you could recommend to Jessi? What is “Clean Sweep”? A curling related cozy mystery? A high school hijinx sports novel? A romance novel about a chimney sweep who is reforming himself after his criminal past? Something else? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on January 16th for our episode on Family Sagas! Then come back on February 6th for our episode on our Reading Resolutions for 2018!
In this episode we discuss the latest from Jeff Zentner and start praying for a sequel featuring Jesmyn playing keyboards for Dearly (Dillard, of the Serpent King). Molly suggests 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher and Looking for Alaska by (some author named) John Green. Nate suggests Sherman Alexie's You Don't Have to Say You Love Me and When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. Kim suggests The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner and Final Fantasy XV. Katie suggests Stranger Things the Netflix series for the relationships, and two books by Caitlin Doughty The Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.
Marco welcomes Bobbi Goddard and he learns how to say Saskatchewan. They talk baseball and the relationship between the game and the stage. Books mentioned on this episode: Fall on your Knees - by Ann-Marie Macdonald, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find Good Death - by Caitlin Doughty, Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game That Saved Me - by Stacey May FowlesHost: Marco TimpanoCo Host: Nidhi KhannaProducers: Drumcast ProductionsTheme Music: Royalty Free: Bass Walker, Kevin MacLeodThe Insomnia Project mundane conversation to help you drift into a state of slumber. Not every episode will bring you to sleep but our goal is to at the very least get you to a relaxed state. Please do not operate heavy machinery while listening to our podcast.Follow along the conversation without really being interested; if you don't get to the end because you fall asleep, well you paid us the biggest compliment. Want to get extra Insomnia Project content?Go to our Patreon page:www.patreon.com/theinsomniaprojectFor information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month is a two part special to celebrate Booksgiving! Part one features book recommendations and gift experiences for adult fiction and non-fiction. Introduction 0:00 to 0:24 Booksgiving Explanation 0:24 to 3:30 Adult Fiction 3:30 to 15:54 Adult Non-fiction 15:54 to 49:18 Wrapping Up 49:18 to 49:59 Conclusion 49.59 to 50:58 Sourdough by Robin Sloan Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver Amanda Wakes Up by Alyson Camerota Devotions by Mary Oliver From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer The Long Haul by Finn Murphy Unique Eats and Eateries Chicago by Matt Kirouac Smitten Kitchen Every Day Craft Coffee: A Manual by Jessica Easto Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat Radium Girls by Kate Moore Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard Killlers of the Flower Moon Born A Crime by Trever Noah Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore by Jared Yates Sexton Unbelievable by Katy Tur The Life Changing Magic of Tidying-Up by Marie Kondo The Gentle Are of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson National Geographic The Photo Ark Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson by Joel Sartore and Douglas H. Chadwick Playing with Super Power by Sebastian Haley and Megan Marie
In this weirdly chill episode, we talk about memoirs and track cycling and magical fantasy and female relationships and six-legged octopuses. Plus: The mystique of a book club in which you might actually read a book you enjoy. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray Books and Other Media Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad Unplugged: Evolve from Technology to Upgrade Your Fitness, Performance, Consciousness by Brian Mackenzie, Andy Galpin, and Phil White Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green The Rider by Tim Krabbé The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst (Anna mistakenly calls this The Blood Queen) Malazan Book of the Fallen (series) by Steven Erikson Octodad: Dadliest Catch (video game) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland Read the webcomic Present by Leslie Stein Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (board game) Bring Your Own Book (party game) Simon and Martina (YouTube video series) From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Links, Articles, and Things Quality Time app Cycling Track Men's Team Pursuit Gold Medal Finals - 2012 Olympics Lucy Knisley apparently also has a book about her high school experiences in the works, as well as the one Matthew is totally unexcited about on her recent pregnancy and new baby Snakes and Ladders (board game) Blog post about building a Raspberry Pi powered Readers’ Advisory Machine in which there is a photo of Anna and Matthew playing The Game of Life: Pirates of the Caribbean – At World's End (Matthew clearly forgets what the actual rules were, but they were terrible) PHX Zine Fest Books on my shelf I have not read & Two-Fisted Library Studies (zines made by Anna and Matthew) Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix Our bonus episode on the American Library Association Annual conference and BookExpo America 2017 Questions Is the second book being a dud the “curse of the trilogy”? What is the best worst board game you have ever played? Do you ever recommend YouTube channels to your friends? What channels? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 21st, when we’ll be talking about Dystopian Fiction! Then come back on, December 5th when we’ll be discussing Favourite Childhood Books!
Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, best-selling author, blogger, YouTube personality, and director of the nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA, has long been fascinated by death, what it means to treat the dead with dignity, and why we are so afraid of dead bodies. Her new book, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, sets out on a global journey to discover how other cultures care for their dead. With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters a range of rituals from a grandpa’s mummy being cared for in a family home in rural Indonesia to a Japanese practice of using chopsticks to pick bones from cremation ashes. As many cultures around the world celebrate their ancestors this time of year, join us for a refreshing look at death practices, mourning rituals, and how we might bring life to the way we think about death.
Bill welcomes author and celebrity mortician Caitlin Doughty to the show. Caitlin is a mortician, activist, and funeral industry rabble-rouser. In 2011 she founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, which has spawned the death positive movement. Her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, was a New York Times best-seller. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home. We will be discussing, among other things, her latest book, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.
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Alternative mortician, YouTube personality, and New York Times bestselling nonfiction author of From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty, rang me up this week to chat about changing the West’s relationship to death, the challenges of running a non-profit funeral home, and how to write a bestselling book in your spare time. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today! Caitlin is the creator of “Ask a Mortician,” a web series that boasts over 300,000 subscribers, and the founder of The Order of the Good Death, a nonprofit that advocates for death acceptance and an alternative to Western funeral industry practices. Her first bestselling book and memoir, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory, chronicled her experiences as a young woman working in a crematorium. Her latest, From Here to Eternity, resumes her exploration of the field to explore “… how other cultures care for the dead,” and “… is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America.” Her mission to reform the death industry has led to features on NPR, BBC, The New Yorker, Vice, The Atlantic, the New York Times, and many others. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In this file Caitlin Doughty and I discuss: Her strong voice for change and how that got her an agent How a full-time mortician finds time to write bestselling books The sense of doubt that all writers face How her greater mission overtook her fear of writing Why writers need to be less precious about their work The Muse of Death Why you need to Tweet an inspirational writing quote to Caitlin @TheGoodDeath – #TheWriterFiles – after you listen to this show Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes If you’re ready to see for yourself why over 201,344 website owners trust StudioPress — the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins — just go to StudioPress.com From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death – Caitlin Doughty CaitlinDoughty.com
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living,” Marcus Tullius Cicero once wrote. Caitlin Doughty has spent her life around the dead. A mortician by trade, Doughty, in From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death travels the world to discover how other cultures care for their dead. She goes to Bolivia to see cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls; to Japan to watch relatives of the deceased use chopsticks to pluck their loved ones’ bones from cremation ashes; to Indonesia to watch a man dress his grandfather’s mummified body. Caitlin is joined in conversation with Sonya Vatomsky—Seattle-based author, journalist, and poet who writes about art and death. Together, and with a keen sense of wonder, Doughty and Vatomsky dig deep into death-care innovators who are practicing green burials and composting bodies. The life of the dead is alive, indeed. Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, activist, author, and founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, and the webseries “Ask a Mortician” which has led to features on NPR, BBC, The New Yorker, Vice, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes. She is the author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes—a New York Times bestseller—as well as From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which she will be discussing tonight. Sonya Vatomsky is a journalist, author, and poet living in Seattle. They are a staff writer about art and death at Haute Macabre, and have written for publications such as New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Slate, and more. Their book of poetry Salt is For Curing was published in 2015 and is currently on its 5th printing. Presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the Arts & Culture series. Recorded live at Summit by Town Hall Seattle Friday, October 6, 2017
Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, activist, author, and founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, and the webseries “Ask a Mortician,” which has led to features on NPR, BBC, The New Yorker, Vice, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory. Her new book is From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death. Caitlin was in the Northwest to speak at The Summit on Pike, presented by Town Hall Seattle. Follow her on Twitter @TheGoodDeath.
Mortician, author and activist Caitlin Doughty discusses her new book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death. She reveasl how America’s funeral industrial complex overcharges and overregulates how we say goodbye to our loved ones and how funerals went from private family affairs to big business in just a century. She shares how people around the world honor the dead including villagers in Indonesia who sleep, eat, and interact with their deceased on a daily basis, and high tech innovators are revolutionizing how the dearly departed are remembered in Japan. She tells of a community in Colorado that forgoes the sterile funeral home cremation in favor of an old fashioned funeral pyre, and a green advocate in North Carolina who wants to compost your corpse. Order Caitlin Doughty's book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death on Amazon or download the audio book on Audible. To learn more about Caitlin Doughty and The Order of the Good Death, visit www.caitlindoughty.com and www.orderofthegooddeath.com. Check out her popular Ask a Mortician videos on youtube, and follow Caitlin on Twitter at @TheGoodDeath. Today’s episode is sponsored by Nadex. Please subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts and take our annual listener survey at www.podsurvey.com/KICK. Visit www.kickassnews.com for more fun stuff.
Cara is joined in-studio by mortician and death-acceptance advocate, Caitlin Doughty. They talk about her new book, “From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death,” as well as her work revolutionizing the funeral industry with her non-profit mortuary “Undertaking LA.” Follow Caitlin: @TheGoodDeath.
Cara is joined in-studio by mortician and death-acceptance advocate, Caitlin Doughty. They talk about her new book, “From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death,” as well as her work revolutionizing the funeral industry with her non-profit mortuary “Undertaking LA.” Follow Caitlin: @TheGoodDeath.