Book: When smoke gets in your eyes. Provocative stories about his favorite work from the employee of the crematorium

In many respects, women can be considered companions of death. Giving birth to baby, woman gives birth to not only life, but death. Samuel Beckett wrote: "They give birth astride of a grave". Mother nature is a true mother who continuously creates and destroys.

In the Indian Vedas, written four thousand years ago, said that cremation is necessary in order that the soul could escape from the trap in the form of the impure dead body.

People in the fridge, most likely, would never spend time together in real life. An elderly black man with a myocardial infarction, a middle-aged woman with ovarian cancer, the young Spaniard shot just a few blocks from the crematorium. All of them were brought here by death, like the UN summit, where they were to discuss his demise at the round table.

We went into a large warehouse, from where he heard the roaring inside were two large, but squat machine, located in the center of the room, as Tweedledum and Tweedledee of death, made of corrugated metal. You got a pipe that went up through the roof. Each machine had a metal door opened up. I realized that before me stood a furnace for cremation.

The longer you do not believe in anything, the more systems of your body are resisting.

When I was overcome with emotions, feelings, longing, I pushed them inward, in a rage that allowed them to go outside. My internal dialogue was relentless: "you're okay. You are starving, nobody beats. Your parents are still alive. In the world there is real grief and your problems are pathetic. You are a sad miserable cow".

If you decide to go, it is fair to do so, not to cause harm to others. You need to slip away from the party life through the back exit, making sure that other guests will not suffer due to your choice.

For anybody not a secret that we all die one day. As the great cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, "the idea of death and the fear of it haunting a man like nothing else". Because of the fear of death we build cathedrals, have children, declare war and watch on the Internet videos about cats at three in the morning.

According to the journalist witness, Mata Hari, the famous exotic dancer who was engaged in espionage during the First world war, refused to wear a blindfold when in 1917 the French led her to be shot.
- Do I have to wear this? asked Mata Hari my lawyer, as soon as I saw the bandage.
And if your wife does not want, it does not change anything, ' replied the officer, hastily turning away.
Mata Hari decided not to tie and wear a bandage on her eyes. She looked his tormentors in the face, when the priest, the nuns and the lawyer walked away.