IRB #1 Introduction Post

            Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty is a memoir about learning how to work in a crematory and how to care for dead bodies. Writen by a licensed mortician, the book has underlying meanings of how society handles the fear of death and how this fear has shaped individuals. With raving reviews from Oprah, Natalie Kusz from the New York Times Book Review, and many more, this memoir has been recommended to me by my mother, a seventh and ninth grade English teacher. I am ready to pick up Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and see how my unique view of death compares to Doughty's view.