![]() ![]() Since most people would rather prefer to go on living without thinking about their end, death is inevitably made invisible in our cultures. ![]() ![]() Caitlin aims to delineate us from the idea of death by telling us about all that it entails. But to call that graphic content would contradict the purpose of her book. This book does contain some in-depth gruesome descriptions about the body in stages of decay. In fact, by writing this sort of book and openly exposing some of the well kept secrets of cremation and burial, Doughty attempts to show people the real deal so we can accept death wholeheartedly and understand it better. In the course of her book, she also highlights some of the loopholes in the workings of the American funeral industry. Smoke Gets in your Eyes by Caitlin Doughtyĭoughty makes several arguments against the glamorisation of death and how in present times, death is something that’s shrouded from the eyes of society – made invisible. ![]()
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