In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women “give birth astride of a grave.” 

— Caitlin Doughty, from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

— Samantha Hunt, interviewed by The New Yorker

— Claudia Dey, ‘Mothers as Makers of Death’