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From Here to Eternity
- Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
- Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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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.
In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. She meets Bolivian ñatitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls) and introduces us to the Japanese ritual of kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved ones' bones from cremation ashes.
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-02-18
really interesting
really interesting book, I managed to finish it over the weekend. it made me think about my own mortality.
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- MISS E S HADJIDANIEL
- 03-11-19
Very insightful and informative
A very interesting, insightful and informative book which discusses a subject which we rarely talk about ourselves. As well as sharing burial rituals from around the world, it also shares strategies and methods we can use (or should allow ourselves to use) to deal with the loss of loved ones and the theme of death itself. Whether you agree with these ideas or not, this is still a very good book to listen to. Really glad that I chose this book and am looking forward to learning more from Caitlin Doughty's experiences.
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- LanaLeigh
- 24-06-20
Beautiful, Moving, Educational
This is my second book by this author and I loved it even more than the first. I consider this a must read. It is incredibly educational, enlightening and incredibly moving. Honestly, I cannot say enough great things about it! enjoy!
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- ms lowe
- 28-07-20
Great listen
Really interestig book on a difficult subject. Handled with humour but also a deep respect for cultural differences in practices of dealing with the dead.
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- D Philpotts
- 26-07-20
a comfortable understanding
loved it, a whitty but factual book, loved the narration. something you cant put down
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- laura
- 08-10-19
fabulous
you will not be disappointed with this buy. Caitlin has such a way with her words. she captivates you with her bold descriptions and given the nature of the content she gets to the point while opening your eyes, we could all learn alot from her example
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- RedMazPanda
- 16-10-18
Great book!
I would highly reccomend this to anyone. Especially those that wondered about different death practices.
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- Liz
- 27-02-20
Brilliant as always.
I like the way Caitlin is able to bring death to the table and talk about it rationally and openly. It is time that we were given freedom to express our fears and desires across the world and see how others cope so lovingly to care for their dead.
It is frightening that funeral homes have become big business and not the personalised funerals of our past. I am terrified of being buried alive and so I donated my body to doctors to train on. Sadly they need near normal bodies and I have two fistulas (holes from my gut to the skin. It is amazing to consider I have other choices. Thank you x
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- Jules
- 12-09-20
Caitlin at her best
If you enjoy Caitlin's YouTube videos you'll love this. If you've never watched them, what are you doing with your (after?) life? Amazing stories of death ritual around the world told in Caitlin's inimitable style. She has been one of the greatest comforts in the wake *punintended of my parents' deaths and enabled me to have the 'death conversation' with my own family. This book is fascinating from start to finish.
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- Beth Green
- 18-12-19
amazing
I love this book, the journey is enough to make it novel like in quality while being informative, and very funny.
A humanist look at death.
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