From Here to Eternity

Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair

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English

Weidenfeld & Nicolson
29 January 2019

Biography; Memoirs; Sociology: death & dying; Anthropology; Medical anthropology; Travel writing

As a practising 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 humour, 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 futuristic glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan, a candlelit Mexican cemetery, and America's only open-air pyre. In doing so she expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with 'dignity' and reveals unexpected possibilities for our own death rituals.

By: Caitlin Doughty
Illustrated by: Landis Blair
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9781474606530
ISBN 10: 1474606539
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 29 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CAITLIN DOUGHTY was born and raised in Hawaii before gaining a degree in Medieval History from the University of Chicago. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she owns an alternative funeral home, Undertaking LA. She is the creator of the 'Ask a Mortician' web series, the founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and co-founder of Death Salon. She is the author of three New York Times bestsellers - SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY and WILL MY CAT EAT MY EYEBALLS?

Reviews for From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

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 TIMES Doughty 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 - SPECTATOR Fascinating, thought-provoking and funny. Put it on your bucket list - MAIL ON SUNDAY