Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & other lessons from the crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & other lessons from the crematory is a collection of personal stories and lessons learned by Caitlin Doughty, a current mortician, writing about her time as a crematory operator in California. It sounds pretty morbid, and at times it is, but it’s also entertaining, funny at times, and refreshingly honest. I learned a lot about the death industry and what happens behind the curtains. I’m sure I’m not the only one to wonder.

Caitlin Doughty also writes From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? in addition to her YouTube channel, “Ask a Mortician.”