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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
4.32 AVERAGE
3.69k reviews for:
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
4.32 AVERAGE
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I love when authors narrate their own non-fiction. I knew I would love this as much as I enjoyed her memoir about working in a crematorium and I was right.
My daughter was assigned this book to read for her world geography course and it interested me enough to read it too. It is a fascinating look into how different cultures around the world perceive death.
While in America, we often think of bodies as unclean and unsanitary, the Torajan culture may live with their loved one's body for months or years.
A little gruesome in some places, but not graphic. The author is a funeral home owner and handles the subject of death gracefully.
While in America, we often think of bodies as unclean and unsanitary, the Torajan culture may live with their loved one's body for months or years.
A little gruesome in some places, but not graphic. The author is a funeral home owner and handles the subject of death gracefully.
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i feel like these subjects need to be discussed more, especially in the united states, and unfortunately not much is changing at the moment to the general eye
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Fascinating and fun.
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Summary: Mortician Caitlin Doughty relays her first-hand learning about the customs and beliefs surrounding death in various places and cultures around the world, and she explores the ways in which the American death industry might adapt its practices in order to allow mourners to more meaningfully grieve and process the deaths of their loved ones.
Not surprisingly, I loved this book. I have read her other two and knew I would find new tidbits in this one. Her insights about the role of rituals in making grief public and grief helping us heal really stuck with me. This was a weird but oddly appropriate time to read a book about death and shows a window to what we are seeing now and where we are going in our limited social acceptance of grief.
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