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Caitlin Doughty amerikai

1984. augusztus 19. (Oahu, Amerikai Egyesült Államok) –

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KatalógusnévDoughty, Caitlin
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Könyvei 3

Caitlin Doughty: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Caitlin Doughty: From Here to Eternity

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Caitlin Doughty: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Caitlin Doughty: From Here to Eternity

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Caitlin Doughty

A témához képest vicces a stílusa, sok érdekeset megtudhattam a halálról és különböző szokásokról. A youtube videói alapján szimpatikusnak tűnik, remélem még lesznek könyvei.


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Did Grandma want a Viking funeral? If so, your grandmother sounds rad and I wish I had known her.

Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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As a general rule, if anyone ever asks you to put stockings on a ninety-year old deceased Romanian woman with oedema, your answer should be no.

Caitlin Doughty: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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One of the most popular articles written about the Bios Urn is called „This Awesome Urn Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die!”
It is a lovely thought, and a tree may grow from the soil provided, but after the 1,800-degree cremation process, the remaining bones are reduced to inorganic, basic carbon. With everything organic (including DNA) burned away, your sterile ashes are way past being useful to plants or trees. There are nutrients, but their combination is all wrong for plants, and don't contribute to ecological cycles. Bios Urn charges $145 for one of their urns. The symbolism is beautiful. But symbolism does not make you part of the tree.

148. oldal, Spain: Barcelona

Caitlin Doughty: From Here to Eternity Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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The idea behind Jurassic Park, before it became a book and then a massive movie franchise, began as a thought experiment by some scientists in the 1980s. They looked at an ancient mosquito trapped in amber and wondered, “What if one of those mosquitoes had feasted on the blood of a T. rex right before it died? The mosquito ate, landed on a tree to relax, got caught in the tree resin, and eventually became preserved in amber? If we can suck out that ancient dino blood, maybe we can get its genetic code and use it to bring that T. rex back.” […] So why wouldn’t they be able to get DNA out of those flawlessly preserved creatures in amber?
Scientists now pretty much agree that getting useful DNA from animals in amber is not possible. DNA just disintegrates too quickly. Oxygen levels change, temperatures change, moisture levels change, all of which cause the puzzle pieces that make up your genetic code to fall apart. It’s a mess. Even if they did get some of your material extracted, they’d likely have to fill in the gaps with . . . someone, or something, else.

Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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So now you know what to expect if someone dies on your plane. Sitting next to a corpse all the way to Tokyo isn’t ideal, but I would prefer a corpse to a crying baby.

Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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Paul Koudounaris was wearing a large fuzzy hat made from a coyote pelt, with the ears still attached. The hat, worn in combination with the gold beads that hung from his pointy black beard, made him look like Genghis Khan on his way to a furry convention.
„I think Doña Ely will like the coyote hat,” he explained. „She dresses her cat up like a Jedi.” In Paul's mind, this was a perfectly reasonable connection.

189. oldal, Bolivia: La Paz

Caitlin Doughty: From Here to Eternity Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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HISTORY IS FILLED with ideas that arrived before their time. In the 1980s, Hiroshi Ueda, a Japanese camera company employee, created the first camera “extender stick,” allowing him to capture self-portraits on his travels. The camera extender received a patent in 1983, but didn’t sell. The contraption seemed so trivial that it even made a cameo in the book of chindōgu or “un-useful inventions.” (Other chindōgu: tiny slippers for your cat, electric fans attached to chopsticks to cool off your ramen noodles.) Without fanfair, Ueda’s patent expired in 2003. Today, surrounded by the masses wielding selfie sticks like narcissistic Jedi knights, he seemed remarkably calm in his defeat, telling the BBC, “We call it a 3 a.m. invention—it arrived too early.”

Caitlin Doughty: From Here to Eternity Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Rocketdog>!

You might poop when you die. Fun, right?

Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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In the mid-1800s, Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis noticed that new mothers who were treated by midwives fared much better than those who were treated by trainee doctors, who also handled and dissected cadavers. He believed that sticking one’s hands into a dead body and then directly into a laboring woman was dangerous. So, Semmelweis issued a mandate that hands must be washed between the two activities. And it worked! Rates of infection dropped from one in ten to one in a hundred within the first few months. Unfortunately, the finding was rejected by much of the medical establishment of the time. One of the reasons it was so hard to get doctors to wash up? The stench of “hospital odor” on their hands was a mark of prestige. They called it “good old hospital stink.” Quite simply, decayed corpse smell was a badge of honor they had no intention of removing.

Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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Perhaps the most famous adult conjoined twins were Chang and Eng Bunker. Originally from Siam (now called Thailand), the Bunkers were the origin of the expression “Siamese twins.”

Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death