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 set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America.

In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393249891
• ISBN13: 9780393249897
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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!