From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Book by Caitlin Doughty
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (October 3, 2017) Language : English Hardcover : 272 pages ISBN-10 : 0393249891 ISBN-13 : 978-0393249897 Item Weight : 14.4 ounces Dimensions : 5.8 x 1 x 8.6 inches Best Sellers Rank: #23,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #23 in Sociology of Death (Books) #79 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies #735 in Memoirs (Books) , A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather’s mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones’ bones from cremation ashes. With boundless curiosity and gallows humor, Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world’s funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico’s Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light. Doughty contends that the American funeral industry sells a particular―and, upon close inspection, peculiar ―set of "respectful" rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary, pumped full of chemicals, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our expensive, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality. 45 illustrations Read more
REVIEW
Interesting informative and gives you a completely different way to view death and the dying. I highly recommend all her books and I am not much into books but hers just have a perfect amount of classy respectful humor within a very well written accounts of her experience working in the death industry through her books I have found death to not be as fearful as it was before learning the depth she bring to life and death. It’s now something I have come to accept as part of life and is all our fate and knowing that I don’t truly fear it as much as fear grief over losing my parents but I will handle it much better after reading her wonderful books and following her on social media
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