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Who am I?
I teach environmental education at Warren Wilson College outside Asheville, North Carolina, where I’ve raised my two daughters in a 900-square-foot campus rental with an expansive view of the Appalachian mountains. My students work in jobs ranging from managing the herd of cattle to growing vegetables for the cafeteria. After the sudden deaths of my parents, I decided to take this one-year journey to revise my final wishes with climate change and community in mind as a legacy to my children and my students. I’ve written five books, including the forthcoming Love Your Mother: 50 states, 50 stories, & 50 women united for climate justice (April 2023).
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Discover why each book is one of Mallory's favorite books on change your relationship with death and heal Earth .
Why did Mallory love this book?
I could watch mortician Caitlyn Doughty’s YouTube videos about death for hours. She’s like a stand-up comedian and tour guide in a cross-cultural journey about death practices across the globe. To research my own book, I turned to her adventures exploring sky burials and flame cremation worldwide, as well as embalming in this country as an interrogation into the practices of the conventional U.S. funeral industry. PS: I’ll never think about putting makeup on the dead in the same way again. Doughty’s storytelling strength is her use of specific details you’ll never forget.
From Here to Eternity
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3 authors picked From Here to Eternity as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
What is this book about?
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry-especially chemical embalming-and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the…
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