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This was an appropriate Literati Finding Wonder book club selection for October, and it’s my favorite of Doughty’s three books. A “Mondo Cane” of today’s death rituals around the world, it immediately struck me as a more jovial “Dark Tourist” and then near the end I learned the proper term for this sort of roving macabre curiosity: thanotourism.