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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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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Death, memoir, Undertakers and undertaking, Cross-cultural studies, Travel, Bereavement, Dead, Death, social aspects, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2017-10-22, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Death & Dying, Mourning customs, Social aspects, Funeral Rites, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Attitude to Death, GriefPeople
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Indonesia, Bolivia, Japan, United States of America, Los Angeles, MexicoShowing 9 featured editions. View all 9 editions?
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From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
2019, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
2018, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., W. W. Norton & Company
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From here to eternity: traveling the world to find the good death
2018
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
2017 October 17, Recorded Books
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From here to eternity: traveling the world to find the good death
2017, W. W. Norton & Company, W.W. Norton & Company
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to find the Good Death
Oct 15, 2017, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
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Para Toda a Eternidade. Conhecendo o mundo de maos dadas com a morte
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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.
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- A Tour of the World in Cremations and Cadavers - The New York Times
- Review: From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty | The Times
- Nonfiction Book Review: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find a Good Death (publishersweekly.com)
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