From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
Oct 2017 · Hachette UK
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As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning - including a futuristic glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan, a candlelit Mexican cemetery, and America's only open-air pyre. In doing so she expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with 'dignity' and reveals unexpected possibilities for our own death rituals.
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Carla Fernandes
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June 11, 2024
This is a very interesting and informative book about different ways of honouring the dead, how individual cultures deal with death and their practices around dying, dealing with the dead body and remembering loved ones. Weirdly enough this was a chosen book for my travel writing book club 🤣 but I honestly couldn't stop reading it until it was finished and have since read all the other books by the same author and some others that are recommended at her "Order of Good Death" website. Caitlin Doughty's writing is witty and humourous but well researched, resulting in an accessible book even if you aren't very familiar with death, dying and funerary practices/rituals
C B
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March 7, 2024
A wonderful and enlightening romp through a variety of death practices around the world. Caitlin's passion and excellent sense of humour ooze from every page.
Paige Manning
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July 12, 2018
I couldn't put it down
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About the author
Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, writer and advocate for funeral industry reform. In 2011 she founded the non-profit The Order of the Good Death, which spawned the death positive movement and is working to legalise human composting and aquamation in all fifty states of the USA. Her educational documentaries as 'Ask a Mortician' have been viewed over 250 million times and all three of her books - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - were New York Times bestsellers. She founded a Los Angeles funeral home, Clarity Funerals, and currently lives in upstate New York.
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