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

By Caitlin Doughty

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2017
ISBN
0393249891
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
46 MB (48578827 bytes)
Series
(retail)
Pages
297\0
Topic
Literature
Time added
2017-12-16 11:59:56

Description

The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." 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 (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. With boundless curiosity and gallows humor, Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world's funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green...

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