From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to find the Good Death
(eAudiobook)

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    [synopsis] => Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dressed, his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian Natitas, who are cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls, and introduces us to a Japanese Kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved- ones' bones from cremation ashes.

With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. Featuring Gorey-esque illustrations by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning, including a glowing Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre, and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals.
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