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Kinder fragen klar, offen und ehrlich nach dem Tod. Und genauso muss man ihnen auch antworten. Das ist zumindest die Überzeugung von Caitlin Doughty. Die berühmteste Bestatterin der Welt beantwortet in ihrem Buch ganz ungeschminkt Fragen von Kindern, die Erwachsene nicht zu stellen wagen. In lustigem, aber immer respektvollem Ton beantwortet die Bestatterin die Fragen ihrer jüngsten Fans und bietet so nicht nur Kindern einen Blick hinter den s...

Kinder fragen klar, offen und ehrlich nach dem Tod. Und genauso muss man ihnen auch antworten. Das ist zumindest die Überzeugung von Caitlin Doughty. Die berühmteste Bestatterin der Welt beantwortet in ihrem Buch ganz ungeschminkt Fragen von Kindern, die Erwachsene nicht zu stellen wagen. Aber auch sie dürfen dieses kurzweilige, profunde Buch über den Tod lesen - zur Not auch heimlich. Jeden Tag erhält Caitlin Doughty Dutzende von Fragen über...

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she's ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you wa...

Everyone's favourite mortician offers seriously fascinating answers to the questions you have about death but were too afraid to ask - for fans of WHAT IF? and WHY DON'T PENGUINS' FEET FREEZE?

Die meisten Menschen gehen dem Tod aus dem Weg. Leichen sollen so schnell wie möglich verschwinden. Doch Caitlin Doughty heuert mit Anfang zwanzig bei einem Krematorium an und wird schnell zur Expertin, die vor keiner Aufgabe zurückschreckt ... So klar, offen und geradezu liebevoll wie sie hat noch niemand von der Arbeit hinter den Kulissen des Lebens berichtet. Caitlin Doughty spannt den Bogen von ihrem ersten Arbeitstag im Westwind-Krematori...

Bestselling author and mortician Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

»Doughty - eine vertrauenswürdige Begleiterin durch die Welt des Todes - bringt uns zum Lachen.« Washington PostDer New-York-Times-Bestseller endlich auf Deutsch!Fasziniert von unserer Angst vor dem Tod, zieht es die Bestatterin Caitlin Doughty in die Welt. Um zu erkunden, was wir von anderen Kulturen über Tod und Trauer lernen können, besucht sie in Indonesien einen Mann, der mit dem mumifizierten Körper seines Großvaters zusammenlebt. Verfol...

What happens if someone dies on a plane?Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. In this book she offers factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting questions posed by her youngest fans, sharing the lore and science of what happens to,...

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it was pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What If?, Doughty's new book, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, blends her scientific understanding of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses...

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As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning - including a futuristic glowing-Buddha columba...

Mentre la maggior parte della gente rifugge il pensiero della morte, Caitlin Doughty ne è incuriosita fin da quando era piccola. E, dopo essersi laureata in Storia medievale con una tesi sulla stregoneria, a ventitré anni ha scelto di diventare un'intrepida esploratrice del mondo dei defunti, trovandosi un impiego alla Westwind Cremation & Burial, un'impresa di pompe funebri di Oakland. In questo bizzarro memoir seguiamo le tragicomiche avvent...

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry-especially chemical embalming-and suggests t...

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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (c...

einem guten Freund zur Mitternacht einenFriedhof besuchen wollte, um den Tod mit anderen Augen zu sehen, dersollte diese unvergessliche Geschichte lesen.

A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.

Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age s...

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