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From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
2 reviews
emfass's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Terminal illness, Abortion, Blood, Miscarriage, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror
marcellaandherbooks's review against another edition
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
2.5
Is it fair to give a poor review of a book when it does exactly what it says on the cover, but I was just hoping for it to give me more?
When I picked up From here to eternity : Travelling the world to find the good death, I was hoping to find out more about different traditions and practices surrounding death from all over the world. I wanted to know where these traditions came from, how they came to be. What role they played in the grieving process and how they compared to Western death culture.
But the book is more about the what and the how, rather then the why.
I think the word travelling in the subtitle is a good indicator. It feels like Doughty is a tourist, witnessing different death rituals, describing what she sees and who she meets. She spends a lot of time on the technical details, where I would rather have learned about the psychological and cultural aspects.
Rather then reading how an ox got slaughtered as a sacrifice, I would have loved to know why, and where the practise came from.
I did enjoy the epilogue where she talks about the implications the sanitization of practices around death, especially in the U.S. has on the grief process and how they could learn from other countries, I felt like that had the tone I was looking for in the rest of the book.
But as a whole unfortunately, this book wasn't for me.
When I picked up From here to eternity : Travelling the world to find the good death, I was hoping to find out more about different traditions and practices surrounding death from all over the world. I wanted to know where these traditions came from, how they came to be. What role they played in the grieving process and how they compared to Western death culture.
But the book is more about the what and the how, rather then the why.
I think the word travelling in the subtitle is a good indicator. It feels like Doughty is a tourist, witnessing different death rituals, describing what she sees and who she meets. She spends a lot of time on the technical details, where I would rather have learned about the psychological and cultural aspects.
Rather then reading how an ox got slaughtered as a sacrifice, I would have loved to know why, and where the practise came from.
I did enjoy the epilogue where she talks about the implications the sanitization of practices around death, especially in the U.S. has on the grief process and how they could learn from other countries, I felt like that had the tone I was looking for in the rest of the book.
But as a whole unfortunately, this book wasn't for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
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