Podcasts about your eyes and other lessons

"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory" by Caitlin Doughty is not your average memoir. It mixes life, death, gallows humor and world history to turn the funeral industry upside down. It may be the most though provoking discussion the Busy Girls have ever had.

First Friday is back!Strange & Unusual Books discussed:Celine by Peter HellerWhat Have We Done by Alex FinlayThe Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Every Window Filled with Light by Shelia StovallThe Measure by Nikki ErlickSmoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs by Caitlin Doughty  

Dr. Laura Veals is a small animal integrative veterinarian based out of Boise, Idaho. She is the owner/founder of Divine Wellness For Animals, the only mobile veterinary acupuncture and rehabilitation practice in the entire Treasure Valley. After working in clinical practice since 2014, she became deeply passionate about providing accessible mobility care to all patients, especially those who may respond more favorably to care at home instead of in a clinical setting.  Laura has an amazing recently adopted dog, Ryna, who is compared to "Petey" from Little Rascals and has the tallest ears in Boise, and her senior tripod cat, Trio, who is always ready to eat!  Laura has carved a unique pathway through her career and is passionate about embracing life outside of veterinary medicine, including her 'side gigs' as a yoga instructor, campervan owner and traveler, and voiceover artist.  Topics covered in this episode: Dr. Laura's journey to becoming a house call veterinarian and how acupuncture saved her career Losing yourSELF in veterinary medicine  Finding yourself again through “honored hobbies”  The challenges of being a house call veterinarian and feeling imposter syndrome Dr. Laura's top tips for those wanting to start a new house call practice Yoga for mental and physical health Links & resources: Visit the Divine Wellness For Animals website Find Dr. Laura on Instagram  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty The House Call Vet Academy links: Find out about The House Call Vet Academy online CE course  Learn more about Dr. Eve Harrison  Learn more about 1-to-1 coaching for current & prospective house call, mobile, & concierge vets Get House Call Vet swag! Find out about the next House Call & Mobile Vet Virtual Conference Music: In loving memory of Dr. Steve Weinberg. Intro & outro guitar music was written,  performed, & recorded by house call veterinarian Dr. Steve Weinberg. Thank you to our sponsors! Rockin' Pets, Rollin' Vets PriVet Pet Care First Opinion Veterinary Ultrasound- Online CE courses on ultrasonography & machine selection Good Pharma Tea (Use code Harrison20 for 20% off your order!) Veterinary Recommended Solutions - Get a $200 gift card! Just mention this podcast when you set up a discovery call with VRS's medical director about their ethical & rigorously tested veterinary supplements.  

This week Alice and Kim share some books about odd jobs plus cover new nonfiction about Hong Kong, prison, and cold cases. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton New Nonfiction Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home by Lauren Kessler Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpot Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen Books About Jobs Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Reading Now The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Diane and Kristin as they define and discuss death anxiety, how to become aware of it, how it shows up for many of us, and what we can do to help accept and address it. Resources mentioned in this episode include: Worden's Four Tasks of Mourning / Death Positive Movement / Headspace / EndWell / Cake / Death Cafes / Death Doulas / Staring at The Sun: Overcoming The Terror of Death / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory / This podcast is an extension of The 20-20 Grief Project, started in 2018 in response to Diane's own desire to understand the lasting effects of grief in our lives. Inspired by the phrase, “hindsight is 20-20,” this project features real people, real stories, and real grief. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/diane-brennan/message

This week I chat with Philip Connor, Commissioning Editor at Penguin Random House Audio and host of the podcast What Editors Want. We chat about how Philip's reading habits have changed and moved more into non fiction as well as how he found himself searching for himself in books on grief and dying. The importance and suprising nature of finding representation in literature and how audio has lent itself to him rereading books and now commissioning works in audio.Joan DidionCS LewisAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo TolstoyWhite Noise by Don DeLilloSmoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyThe Hidden Spring  by Mark SolmsNight's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F HamiltonUbik by Philip K DickEmmanuel CarrèreEmma SouthernMary BeardThe Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter FrankopanF Scott  FitzgeraldVirginia WoolfVladimir NabokovWG Sebald The Denial of Death by Ernest BeckerWhy I Write by George Orwell

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.

Liars! Con artists! Frauds! We're talking about it all on this week's episode. Plus, we're talking punks and hunks, human lie detectors, the lies we tell ourselves, and fun words. And Ziggy the Podcat makes a murderous appearance. Listen to "Liar," the song by Henry Rollins that inspired this week's episode. BTW: Did you hear about Amy's book? Check out the cover and sign up for updates at www.amyleelillard.com! +++++Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 84: LiarNovels:Amy: Q&A, M. Allen Cunningham Erin: Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams Other Books:Amy: "I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb," Allie Conti (Article)Erin: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Caitlin Doughty (Nonfiction)Pop Culture:Amy: Class Action Park (HBO) Erin: Mommy Dead and Dearest (HBO)+++++Broads and Books is a book podcast. A funny podcast. A feminist podcast. And one of the BEST podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!

What with the Western states being on fire we felt it would be interesting to discuss what happens to a body/cadaver when exposed to flames and/or heat. This is a discussion of the burning of human bodies and details what happens to a deceased individual. There is mention of sorting out if the person was alive or not but does not go into detail about that. We do go into fairly graphic detail of what happens to a cadaver. This episode was recorded on Sept 13 but uploaded on Sept 19. To end on a pleasant note, at about min 45 we get to hear about some heroic cats who saved their families, both human and their own babies. As always find me on FB or Instagram or via email murdersmysteriesandmeows@gmail.com Sources http://www.forensicmed.co.uk/pathology/fire-deaths/was-deceased-alive-or-dead-at-the-time-of-the-fire-/ https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/forensic-archaeology-and-anthropology/3/steps/825315 https://www.dovepress.com/forensic-investigation-of-burnt-human-remains-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-RRFMS https://www.whitemountainforensic.com/expert-opinion-why-autopsy-badly-burned-or-charred-remains/ Identification of traumatic injury in burned cranial bone: an experimental approach: Elayne Pope, O’Brian C. Smith https://wyomingpeaceofficers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Identification-of-traumatic-injury-in-burned-cranial-bone.pdf https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/chi-0410180222oct18-story.html Macoveciuc, Ioana & Grant, Nicholas & Horsfall, Ian & Zioupos, Peter. (2017). Sharp and blunt force trauma concealment by thermal alteration in homicides: An in-vitro experiment for methodology and protocol development in forensic anthropological analysis of burnt bones. Forensic Science International. 275. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.03.014. Forensic files - up in smoke - 2005 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cat-saves-couple-from-crock-pot-1.5547669 https://www.burnedbone.com/burned-bone https://www.reshareworthy.com/cat-saves-kittens-from-fire/

For our season finale, we will be exploring our ultimate human fear, our number one cognitive dissonance that arguably leads to all our American hysterias, all our archetypes, beliefs, and delusions, our moral panics. We’ll be taking at look at the historical progression of how Americans have dealt with mortality starting with a place known as the Disneyland of Death, then traveling back to learn about the Puritan idea of the Good Death, and then see how the mass casualties of the Civil War and Lincoln’s embalmed corpse changed our relationship to bodies and immortality, all the way up to the present day tech billionaires funding strange new science to live forever. But we’ll also explore how, historically, the deaths of Black people have been treated in an almost polar opposite way to the deaths of white people, and how the echoes of this reality reach into the present day. Through a psychological concept known as the Terror Management Theory, we’ll try to understand how this uniquely human knowledge of our inevitable deaths shapes our psychology, society, and culture. We will be taking a hiatus for the summer but please stay with us, stay subscribed, follow us on social media or if you can, become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/americanhysteria) . We love you all so much, thank you for being the best audience we could ever hope for

Again, death takes center stage. Cremation, embalming, caskets, death denial, death acceptance. It's a fun discussion, I swear. Read "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory" by Caitlin Doughty as soon as you can!

Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? How does Director Autumn de Wilde feel about her new film adaptation of Emma? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Get Booked: Handsell, Libro FM, and Book Marks, A customizable journal to record your reading life! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “New Literary Prize Will Award Over $100,000 to a Female Novelist” by Concepción de León “The Barbellion Prize: A New Award for Disabled Writers” by Margaret Kingsbury Emma by Jane Austen Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Animal Farm by Odyr “How the CIA brought Animal Farm to the screen” by Martin Chilton You can find your hosts here: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

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/

Caitlin Doughty is a professional mortician, YouTube star and author. She joined Ryan to speak about her new book 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory'.

Caitlin Doughty thinks an awful lot about death. In fact, she’s been doing it for years and that’s what lead her to become a mortician. In Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Doughty describes how being constantly faced with death (far from making her morbid) has actually helped bring her emotions back to life. While in former centuries we were constantly faced with the dead, today the dead have been quietly removed from public view. The result is a culture of death denial that is out of touch with reality. Until you accept death, it’s hard to really appreciate just how rare and special every moment of life is. After reading Doughty’s book and hearing her talk, you might want to go work in a crematory for a little while too. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is available on Amazon. You can follow her on twitter at @TheGoodDeath.

You may know her from her very popular web series, Ask a Mortician, from a previous episode of this podcast (#25), or as the author of the fantastic book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory. Caitlin and I talk about life, death, and publishing. 

“Not being forced to see corpses is a privilege of the developed world.” - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes While most people want to avoid thinking about death, Caitlin Doughty, author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory made it her life's work. In this behind the scenes look at the funeral industry, Caitlin reveals the strange history and practices of the funeral industry, marveling at the bizarre and wonderful practices from different cultures. Caitlin argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and [...]

“Not being forced to see corpses is a privilege of the developed world.” - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes While most people want to avoid thinking about death, Caitlin Doughty, author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory made it her life's work. In this behind the scenes look at the funeral industry, Caitlin reveals the strange history and practices of the funeral industry, marveling at the bizarre and wonderful practices from different cultures. Caitlin argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and [...] The post Caitlin Doughty | Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | Author Interview appeared first on Book Circle Online.

Called "America's (Kinda Dark) Sweetheart"by the Huffington Post, 28-year-old Caitlin Doughty was born and raised on the sunny shores of Oahu, Hawai'i. She is a writer, performer, and filmmaker. She started the Order of the Good Death, an online community of artists, actors, poets, musicians, and directors all committed to staring down their death fears through art. The YouTube videos she created for this site-most notably her question-and-answer series, "Ask a Mortician"-are what brought her to national media attention. She is writing a book "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory' to be published in 2014 and is in the process of opening her own alternative funeral home, Undertaking LA. As an end of life guide, Betsy Trapasso, assists the dying in making a peaceful transition from this world. Betsy is the hostess of Death Cafe Los Angeles where people gather to talk about death and life while enjoying the amazing food and cultures of the City. Betsy's passion is to change how we view death in the United States and that people may be less afraid of dying if they learn about other cultures that view death as a natural part of life. She is producing a feature length documentary about the death views, rituals ,and ceremonies of other cultures and countries.

Called "America's (Kinda Dark) Sweetheart"by the Huffington Post, 28-year-old Caitlin Doughty was born and raised on the sunny shores of Oahu, Hawai'i. She is a writer, performer, and filmmaker. She started the Order of the Good Death, an online community of artists, actors, poets, musicians, and directors all committed to staring down their death fears through art. The YouTube videos she created for this site-most notably her question-and-answer series, "Ask a Mortician"-are what brought her to national media attention. She is writing a book "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory' to be published in 2014 and is in the process of opening her own alternative funeral home, Undertaking LA. As an end of life guide, Betsy Trapasso, assists the dying in making a peaceful transition from this world. Betsy is the hostess of Death Cafe Los Angeles where people gather to talk about death and life while enjoying the amazing food and cultures of the City. Betsy's passion is to change how we view death in the United States and that people may be less afraid of dying if they learn about other cultures that view death as a natural part of life. She is producing a feature length documentary about the death views, rituals ,and ceremonies of other cultures and countries.