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

4.32 AVERAGE

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like_the_award's review against another edition

4.5
informative reflective
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spookyash's review against another edition

5.0
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olyflanders's review against another edition

5.0
funny informative fast-paced
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5.0
Five stars for the last pages alone. I needed to read them so much. I appreciated this book so much more this time around, reading through the lens of my grief and confusion.

chelle_la_belle's review against another edition

3.0
RTC.

3.5 Stars
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4.25
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4.25
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casa_nicho's review against another edition

3.0
Good to know what my options might be at the end of the line. The persistence of such diverse death practices really surprised me, and Caitlin's close experiences with them and the communities and families involved were insightful and at times quite moving. If it's legal by the time I'm gone, compost me please <3

3.5

cdrises's review against another edition

3.0
enjoyable read but I felt like it got a little long somewhere in Mexico (page 77). I had read similar fare from Mary Roach (Stiff), so it could be that I was not as engrossed as I would have been if the content was all new to me. both are worth picking up, it's just that I got to this one second.

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4.0
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"There's a freedom found in decomposition, a body rendered messy, chaotic, and wild." 

This is a fascinating survey of global death practices and a subtle indictment of western culture's lack of appropriate death acceptance presented with Doughty's characteristic wit and charm. Her most sincere and meaningful work to date.