- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Death, memoir, Undertakers and undertaking
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 questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality. ([source][1]) [1]: http://caitlindoughty.com/books/from-here-to-eternity
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Caitlin Doughty
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, ZCUOO, Recorded Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393249903
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Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, activist, and funeral industry rabble-rouser. In 2011 she founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, which has spawned the death positive movement. Her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, was a New York Times best-seller. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA. Born on a balmy August evening on the decidedly un-morbid shores of O’ahu, Hawai’i, Caitlin was an even-tempered, bookish child. Her parents had little reason to believe that she would ultimately seek a life tiptoeing the line between the living and the dead. It was only when she began to ask the pertinent questions that her parents
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