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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
4.32 AVERAGE
3.77k reviews for:
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
4.32 AVERAGE
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Thrilling, Engaging and Cultural!
I must say that this book may not be for everyone. It’s theme is death, and life after death so for some people it may be considered as a “dark” read. Even though there is humour and sarcasm that lightens the story a bit.
It follows a true story of Caitlin Dougherty whose profession is of a Mortician, she travels the world experiencing different cultures way of funerals and cremation rituals.
It is a very interesting type of travel book and does make you wonder and respect the death of life, I found it hard to read at some points just cause of personal tragedy but I really enjoyed the cultural dive into different countries way of honouring the dead.
I must say that this book may not be for everyone. It’s theme is death, and life after death so for some people it may be considered as a “dark” read. Even though there is humour and sarcasm that lightens the story a bit.
It follows a true story of Caitlin Dougherty whose profession is of a Mortician, she travels the world experiencing different cultures way of funerals and cremation rituals.
It is a very interesting type of travel book and does make you wonder and respect the death of life, I found it hard to read at some points just cause of personal tragedy but I really enjoyed the cultural dive into different countries way of honouring the dead.
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I was really worried about reading this book, but I actually think what it did was allow me to view death in a very loving and empathetic way.
Our western cultures and traditions around death have dehumanized it. It is very clear that the author is a caring person and has chosen their field of study as a funeral home and crematorium director, in order to make a change to our Western cultures and traditions, and allow families to have a much more thoughtful and compassionate way to deal with the death of a loved one.
Our western cultures and traditions around death have dehumanized it. It is very clear that the author is a caring person and has chosen their field of study as a funeral home and crematorium director, in order to make a change to our Western cultures and traditions, and allow families to have a much more thoughtful and compassionate way to deal with the death of a loved one.
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Just could not get into it. Was very boring.
Really interesting topic. Wanted more detail and more objectivity but maybe that would’ve made it less interesting to other readers.
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Honestly a fascinating thing to look at through different counties and cultures and something we really are bad at in the US, the death industry wanting to make a profit over genuinely letting people grieve properly is horrible. “Holding space” for death has a whole other layer to it in 2025