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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
4.32 AVERAGE
3.72k reviews for:
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
4.32 AVERAGE
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Very interesting.
I think I enjoyed Doughty's <[b:Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory|25189315|Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory|Caitlin Doughty|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1436549658l/25189315._SX50_.jpg|39962326] a little more, purely for it's more personal antipodes from the author. However, this one was still extremely interesting and something I enjoyed learning about.
I think I enjoyed Doughty's <[b:Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory|25189315|Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory|Caitlin Doughty|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1436549658l/25189315._SX50_.jpg|39962326] a little more, purely for it's more personal antipodes from the author. However, this one was still extremely interesting and something I enjoyed learning about.
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Just finished this fantastic book. I've done some reading on grieving and the preparation of bodies for burial/cremation/etc. in different cultures, but this book went above and beyond what I was expecting. I loved hearing updated info about green burials in North America! Highly recommended for anyone interested in different ways of grieving, celebrating loved ones who have passed, or trying to make informed decisions about how they would like their body cared for upon death.
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This book validates a lot of feeling and thoughts I have had about grief and burial. It made me tear up at times. I now even feel a bit better equipped in dealing with the aftermath of loved ones passing and my own.
What timing for this book...
From the Ruriden columbarium in Japan, the Ñatitas in Bolivia, to one of the only open air pyres in the US... the author really takes you on a journey through different cultures and their death rituals.
I'm sure a better review might pop into my head later, but for now I am happily speechless, and thankful.
From the Ruriden columbarium in Japan, the Ñatitas in Bolivia, to one of the only open air pyres in the US... the author really takes you on a journey through different cultures and their death rituals.
I'm sure a better review might pop into my head later, but for now I am happily speechless, and thankful.
Have you ever wondered why we do what we do with our dearly departed loved ones? Having lost many family members over the years, I’ve questioned our death practices and why we are made to think by the American funeral industry that our options are limited and our choices aren’t really our own. We are told that embalming, fancy caskets, concrete liners, or impersonal cremation are our only options, yet this isn’t the truth.
The candor and curiosity with which author and mortician Caitlin Doughty approaches death rituals around the world is refreshing. Her opening chapter (my favorite) about an open-air, family attended, juniper-scented cremation in Crestone, Colorado, sets the tone as she takes the fear and mystery away from what happens when we die. While some of the death rituals she describes are certainly not for everyone (from sleeping with corpses in Indonesian house graves to dressing up and displaying human skulls who impart favors to devotees in Bolivia), Doughty’s respectful treatment and depiction of global death practices is oddly comforting. Perhaps with awareness and a little research we can choose “to find the good death” rather than succumb to the death-avoiding rituals widely promoted in our death-fearing culture. There is even a Mad-Libs style “Fill-in Fun: Your Death Plan!” section at the end of the book so that your family and friends can know your final wishes. I truly enjoyed this book.
The candor and curiosity with which author and mortician Caitlin Doughty approaches death rituals around the world is refreshing. Her opening chapter (my favorite) about an open-air, family attended, juniper-scented cremation in Crestone, Colorado, sets the tone as she takes the fear and mystery away from what happens when we die. While some of the death rituals she describes are certainly not for everyone (from sleeping with corpses in Indonesian house graves to dressing up and displaying human skulls who impart favors to devotees in Bolivia), Doughty’s respectful treatment and depiction of global death practices is oddly comforting. Perhaps with awareness and a little research we can choose “to find the good death” rather than succumb to the death-avoiding rituals widely promoted in our death-fearing culture. There is even a Mad-Libs style “Fill-in Fun: Your Death Plan!” section at the end of the book so that your family and friends can know your final wishes. I truly enjoyed this book.
Half travel book on burials and funerals around the world, half pamphlet on the need to rethink the Western view of death and its rituals. A little too brief for my taste, but a very interesting read, in particular for a country like Italy, where death is *the* ultimate taboo. / Per metà è un saggio sui riti funebri intorno al mondo e per metà un appello a ripensare la maniera occidentale di vedere la morte e i suoi rituali. Un po' troppo breve per i miei gusti, ma una lettura molto interessante, specialmente per un paese come l'Italia in cui la morte è *il* tabù supremo.