SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES (PB)

From her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about, she started to wonder about the lives of those she cremated and the mourning families they left behind, and found herself confounded by people's erratic reactions to death. Exploring death rituals, she pleads the case for healthier attitudes around death and dying. Full of bizarre encounters, gallows humour and vivid characters this illuminating account makes this otherwise terrifying subject inviting and fascinating.