{"id":45934,"date":"2014-09-18T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wired_magazine_talks_to_mortician_caitlin_doughty-you_should_spend_more_ti\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:00:24","slug":"wired_magazine_talks_to_mortician_caitlin_doughty-you_should_spend_more_ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45934","title":{"rendered":"Wired Magazine Talks to Mortician Caitlin Doughty&#8211;You Should Spend More Time With Corpses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Doughty has been cutting pacemakers out of corpses, grinding human bones by hand, and loading bodies into cremation chambers for seven years. But the 30-year-old mortician doesn\u2019t want to keep all the fun to herself: She thinks the rest of us should get to have a little more face time with the deceased. In her new book, <i>Smoke Gets in Your Eyes<\/i> (that\u2019s a cremation joke), Doughty argues for more acceptance of death in our culture\u201d\u201dand tries to spark a wave of amateur undertaking.<\/p>\n<p><b>Are you really saying that people should handle their loved ones\u2019 bodies? Can we do that?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Most people think dead bodies are dangerous or that they\u2019re required to hire a funeral director to prepare a body. I\u2019m a licensed mortician, but I want to teach people that they don\u2019t need me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/09\/caitlin-doughty\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Doughty has been cutting pacemakers out of corpses, grinding human bones by hand, and loading bodies into cremation chambers for seven years. But the 30-year-old mortician doesn\u2019t want to keep all the fun to herself: She thinks the rest<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45934\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,42,209,175,92,582,589,438,149,168,104,133,155,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-books","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}