From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
Oct 2017 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Caitlin Doughty
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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 terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette- smoking, wish- granting human skulls), and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved- ones' bones from cremation ashes. With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. Featuring Gorey-esque illustrations by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning- including a glowing- Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre- and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals. Author bio: Mortician Caitlin Doughty--host and creator of "Ask a Mortician" and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes--founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and co-founded Death Salon. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA.
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34 reviews
Livaiduis
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December 15, 2022
I've always been fascinated by death rituals around the world, but so many books or TV shows are so full of biased information or opinions. So nice to learn without racism or feelings of *ick* getting in the way.
Mary SULLIVAN
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November 4, 2022
Caitlin does it again! This book is just as well written as her other two (Will my cat eat my eyeballs, and Smoke gets in your eyes). I felt like I was right by her side as she went through these fantastic World-wide adventures. Sometimes I shed tears and sometimes I laughed out loud. I was totally engaged and immersed throughout the entire book.
Ashley Barbosa
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January 29, 2022
This book made a huge impact on my life and I believe can really help other who have lost loved ones. The introduction to different perspectives of death was something I never knew I needed. I did however have to turn up the speed a bit 😅
About the author
Caitlin Doughty is a licensed mortician and the host and creator of the "Ask a Mortician" web series. She founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. Her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, was published in 2015.
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