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 Katelyn 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 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
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!
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, bookby Ruth Ozeki
Currently Obsessed:
Laura Mvula, musician
