
From Here to Eternity
Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
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 qu...
Publish Date
2018-10-09T00:00:00.000Z
2018-10-09T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 2017
Goodreads rating
4.25
ISBN
9780393356281
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2021-01-01T02:58:10.000Z
It’s not for everyone. Then again, @TheGoodDeath wrote a fantastic book about death rituals around the world; what comforts one person completely squicks another person. – source