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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
4.32 AVERAGE
3.68k reviews for:
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
4.32 AVERAGE
Excellent read. As someone who doesn't actively despair the subject of death and dying, this book was recommended to me by a dear friend and it did not disappoint. Talks about various funeral rituals and practices involving the dead throughout the world and much like The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying did for me, this put me more at ease with coming to terms with mortality. But, also was something of a downer due to the American model of funeral practices and how driven by Capital it is.
As a human that's not yet thirty, my view of death is still pretty foreign with a oh-so-closer-by-the-year feeling. Friends and uncles of my parents die. Pets die. People in foreign countries, teachers. And they disappear.
There is no in between, in our world. We are scared of this moment, between incredulity and grief.
THIS IS WHERE CAITLIN DOUGHTY COMES IN.
If you haven't yet checked her youtube channel, go, and things will make sense. She is one of those people I could listen to all day and to be fair, I would have never believed I could end up being a death nerd one day, but here I am, a Deathling.
Throughout this book, we'll see various cultures and their view on death and its surrounding rituals. But not only.
We grieve and miss a person whose gone ; this is a whole process. Yet, in Western Europe, and in the Western world to be quite fair, death is detached, sterilized and dealt with by pros. No touchy, guys, the corpse is not ours anymore as soon as its soul departs! But it wasn't always like this - and it isn't always like this everywhere still.
In her endless quest to find the Good Death - metaphorical and tbh, quite real, Caitlin Doughty travels the world to meet people and cultures who have a - according to us, "different" view. (not yet alternative, but who knows ?).
Read it. Reaaaad ittttt. And the cover is cool it makes people curious.
There is no in between, in our world. We are scared of this moment, between incredulity and grief.
THIS IS WHERE CAITLIN DOUGHTY COMES IN.
If you haven't yet checked her youtube channel, go, and things will make sense. She is one of those people I could listen to all day and to be fair, I would have never believed I could end up being a death nerd one day, but here I am, a Deathling.
Throughout this book, we'll see various cultures and their view on death and its surrounding rituals. But not only.
We grieve and miss a person whose gone ; this is a whole process. Yet, in Western Europe, and in the Western world to be quite fair, death is detached, sterilized and dealt with by pros. No touchy, guys, the corpse is not ours anymore as soon as its soul departs! But it wasn't always like this - and it isn't always like this everywhere still.
In her endless quest to find the Good Death - metaphorical and tbh, quite real, Caitlin Doughty travels the world to meet people and cultures who have a - according to us, "different" view. (not yet alternative, but who knows ?).
Read it. Reaaaad ittttt. And the cover is cool it makes people curious.
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This book easily gets a five star rating from me. The author brought me to places I could not have imagined existed and helped me understand how different cultures around the world honour their dead. It made me realise that not everyone view death as final. The Torajans, for example, whom the author covers extensively in the book, merely see death as sleep. I loved the peppering of humour and authenticity in the chapters. At the end of it all, it made me reflect deeply of how I have seen death in my own country, which, due to its urban settings, conduct industrialised cremations and is now in the midst of disinterring thousands of graves to clear precious land for housing estates. I highly recommend this book for those who wish to demystify death.
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This is a very thought provoking look at death through memoir and other cultural death practices. I really enjoyed the book and found it an interesting take on how funerals and death are viewed around the world.