From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

by Caitlin Doughty

Book Overview

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry--especially chemical embalming--and suggests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393356280
• ISBN13: 9780393356281
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Caitlin Doughty just has a way with words!

I've watched all her YouTube Videos, I've bought all her books. She just has this way with words that send you into this state of enlightenment. The topic she writes about is scary who doesn't have a fear of death, but several times reading this book I thought of how amazing it would be to celebrate my end like that!