From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Amazonundefined

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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry--especially chemical embalming--and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair,
From Here to Eternity
is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.
Recenzja
From Here To Eternity
is fascinating, thought-provoking and--who would have guessed?--sometimes funny. Put it on your bucket list.-- "Mail on Sundays"Caitlin Doughty is razor sharp, and writes about death with exceptional clarity and style.
From Here to Eternity
manages to be both an extremely funny travelogue and a deeply moving book about what death means to us all.--Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas ObscuraDoughty finds the humanity in others cultures' relationship with death that seems to be lacking in ours.-- "VICE"Doughty is a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld, and the weirder things get, the happier she seems.... Her dispatches from the dark side [are] doing us all a kindness--offering a picture of what we're in for, even if we'd rather not know.-- "New York Times Book Review"Doughty writes bluntly about open-air cremations, natural burials and body composting, bringing a little more clarity and a little less mystery to the question: 'What happens to us after we die?'-- "NPR"Illuminating....
From Here to Eternity
humanizes rituals that might otherwise seem unfathomable.-- "Paste"It sounds a bit like
Eat, Pray, Die
, but her project is much larger than its premise first implies. She is searching not for personal spiritual enlightenment or the morbid titillation of thana-tourism, but for practical, radical alternatives to our corporatized death industry. Her travels illuminate a host of compelling possibilities for better funerals and a less fraught relationship with our dead.-- "New Republic"The macabre travelogue is a thoughtful reflection and a smart critique of the American funeral industry, with plenty of gallows humor thrown in.-- "Smithsonian"This humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral?-- "The Times"Thought-provoking.... Unless you and your friends are immortal, this book pertains to you.--A. J. Jacobs
O autorze
Caitlin Doughty
is a mortician and the
New York Times
best-selling author of
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
,
From Here to Eternity
, and
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
She is the creator of the web series
Ask a Mortician
, and the founder of The Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, California, where she owns a funeral home.

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