![]() Doughty pairs her personal narrative with an engrossing examination of various cultures’ relationships with death (1800s Parisian morgues displaying corpses for public view, complete with food and toy vendors Brazilian Wari’ roasting and consuming their dead tribesmen North America’s current billion-dollar funeral industry). Smoke Gets in Your Eyes recounts Doughty’s fascination (nay obsession) with death, which began, as a child, when she witnessed a toddler’s fatal two-story fall, and has continued through her work monitoring a cremation retort and her studies at mortuary school. mortician, is here to reinstate death to what she feels is its rightful place-at the heart of life. ![]() ![]() In life, death is the only guarantee, yet many of us live in fear of the great equalizer. ![]()
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