Satisfied at having done my job and taken a man from corpse to ash, I left the crematory at five p.m, covered in my fine layer of people dust.
ThiSatisfied at having done my job and taken a man from corpse to ash, I left the crematory at five p.m, covered in my fine layer of people dust.
This book is filled with dark exciting humour.
Alas, I thought the author applied to work in a crematory because it was the only job available to her at the time only to find out that she has been on a long tradition of flirting with death. You can check her youtube channels "Ask a mortician" and "The good death". Many people have an irrational fear of death, especially humans of late capitalism, amid the interesting stories of her experience in the death industry the author also makes points about how coming to terms with our mortality and that of our loved ones is good.
I didn't come from a cremating culture, the whole idea scares me but not anymore. I have come to understand that from the time we are born, we are indoctrinated by our specific culture as to the ways death is done and what constitutes proper and respectable. That being said, when I die, allow my body to become compost, bury me in a one-piece shroud and plant a tree right above me that will absorb the nutrients....more
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