125 min listen
Unavailable
ratings:
Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Nov 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Doughty’s memoir, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, was a funny and irresistible account of her experiences working in a crematorium. The job was a life-changer: Doughty now runs a nonprofit funeral home in Los Angeles and hosts the web series “Ask a Mortician.” Her second book is a fascinating catalog of funeral rituals and burial practices from around the world. Visiting Indonesia, Doughty reports on a family that dresses and cleans their grandfather’s mummified body—two years after the man’s death. In Bolivia, she encounters natitas, skulls that can grant wishes. Closer to home, she investigates green burials. Death is universal, but the ways of understanding it are myriad and thought-provoking.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Nov 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Race in America 2018: Live at Politics and Prose: On this episode of Live at Politics and Prose, April Ryan leads a panel discussion on racial issues in America with Mary Frances Berry, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Wesley Lowery, and Jason Riley. by Live at Politics and Prose