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

23 reviews

a_novel_craving's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Blood, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Suicide, Abortion, Animal death, Child death, Death, and Medical content

taliafranks's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

4.25

In general the different cultural attitudes are described thoughtfully and always with empathy towards the deceased and their loved ones. The topic is a rough one that people who are distressed by death and all that comes with it might be uncomfortable with but this book is nevertheless potentially helpful for someone experiencing and contextualising their grief and/or how they themself would like their body to be treated after death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Death, Animal death, Blood, Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, Abortion, and Child death

Moderate: Classism, Gore, Cancer, Infertility, and Cannibalism

In general the book talks about death in depth including different cultural beliefs and actions regarding the process. There is one description of animal sacrifice that is fairly explicit, and an intense recounting of circumstances to terminating a wanted pregnancy due to terminal illness and risk of miscarriage/early infant death, not only in regards to emotions and procedures but also the reactions of anti-choice protesters.

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

Another gem from Caitlin Doughty 🙌 of course I wish there had been more from more places around the world, but like she does have a business to run too, she can't actually go all around the world learning and writing about funeral practices and attitudes towards death. As always, I learned a lot and thought a lot about the way I think about death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Body horror, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

avialia's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Wow, I mean I enjoy a book about funerals and death this much. I am just suprised that the author can make me this intrested in a topic I really had no prior intrest in.
I started reading this only caus the cover loked intresting. Turns out it is about how diffrent cultroes approced death and their funeral and after death rituals.

Did I have any intrest to begin? No.
Do I now want to become a motrician? Also yes.

There was a few MINOR flaws that makes this book not 100% for me. So it lands on a 
4.5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Animal death

gretchenplz's review against another edition

5.0

As someone still processing her first death, this book touched me in a way I didn't expect. Caitlin Doughty is a really special human, and I'm incredibly thankful that she has made it her life's mission to normalize death.

If anyone asks, I want my body cremated on an open-air pyre when it's my time to go. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Grief

Moderate: Child death and Suicide

Minor: Religious bigotry

leefox's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Drug abuse

mfrisk's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This is a good read to learn more about mourning and death rituals of other cultures. I thought it was a valuable read but I just didn’t get as much from it as much as her other book I’ve previously read (will my cat eat my eyeballs?). It had some heartfelt moments don’t get me wrong but it felt like it could have said a bit more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Abortion, Medical content, and Medical trauma

loverrbboy's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative

5.0

CW, this book isn’t sad but this review kinda is

when i had to have my cat put down last year, i had spend hundreds on vet bills, and was emotionally exhausted from months of trying to treat her. i didn’t want to spend more on things that weren’t important to me. i opted to have her cremated cheaply, which meant not receiving any ashes (i didn’t want them anyway - a reminder of how very dead she was and would now always be). i instead asked for ink prints to be made of her paws, and a little jar with a piece of her fur, and i treasure them. i didn’t know at the time that i could have buried her naturally, at home, and when i learned i could have (had i been more open about it), i was devastated. my great grandmother who i barely knew died and i didn’t go to the funeral.

i’m hoping that with this book under my belt, i can take the time to be more comfortable with death in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Suicide

caddythegnome's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Death of parent, Medical content, Child death, Suicide, Grief, Excrement, Death, Cancer, Blood, and Abortion

burnt_milk's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Does this count as a travel memoir for the StoryGraph genre challenge? sort of maybe probably not, but I'm shoving it in there anyway. 
This is a beautiful collection of the author's recounts of her travels, constantly questioning why we have this separation and fear of our dead. It was a short but interesting overview of how a few different cultures remember, celebrate, and care for their community members in death practices. The way we (speaking from Australia) treat death is so sanitised, this book feels hopeful in challenging some of our psychological blocks surrounding it.
I for one, can't wait to disintegrate into human compost. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Cannibalism, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Miscarriage, and Suicide