From Here to Eternity
travelling the world to find the good death
$23.07
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2019
Summary
From Here to Eternity: Adventures in Death and Mourning
As a practicing mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In FROM HERE TO ETERNITY she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears.
With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West, and explores new spaces for mourning - including a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474606530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474606539 |
| Author: | Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Compelling … Doughty’s writing will give you the giggles as well as send a chill down your spine - GUARDIAN
Think Bill Bryson doing an underworld special - THE TIMESDoughty is fun, with an eye for the bizarre and the absurd. She hits the road in quest of cultures untroubled by the western taboos surrounding mortality - SPECTATORFascinating, thought-provoking and funny. Put it on your bucket list - MAIL ON SUNDAYAbout The Author
Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, writer and advocate for funeral industry reform. In 2011 she founded the non-profit The Order of the Good Death, which spawned the death positive movement and is working to legalise human composting and aquamation in all fifty states of the USA. Her educational documentaries as ‘Ask a Mortician’ have been viewed over 250 million times and all three of her books - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - were New York Times bestsellers. She founded a Los Angeles funeral home, Clarity Funerals, and currently lives in upstate New York.
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