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From Here to Eternity

Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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From Here to Eternity

By: Caitlin Doughty
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity".

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 dress 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 (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. 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.

Author bio: Mortician Caitlin Doughty - host and creator of Ask a Mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA.

©2017 Caitlin Doughty (P)2017 Recorded Books
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Featured Article: A Future Corpse's Guide to Death Acceptance


Confronting death does not necessitate a spiral into despondency. Instead we may come a realization that, in acknowledging and accepting this fate, we paradoxically lead fuller and more emotionally present lives. In this list, scholars, physicians, journalists, philosophers, and death professionals share their stories, perspectives, and advice, offering a glimpse into how we can prepare for the end with grace, heart, and humor.

Fascinating Cultural Exploration • Respectful Death Discussions • Soothing Voice • Educational Death Rituals
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I think this is an important book for people to read.
I also think that this book, her first book, and her YouTube channel are awesome, because it’s so cool to see someone so unapologetically geek out over something they’re passionate about — especially, in this case, because this is something most people shy away from.

A book everyone should read.

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Caitlin nailed. Killed it? However you want to say it, she wrote and read an amazing book. Humor, beauty, catharsis, it's all in here.

The Perfect Death-tober Read

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Great book helpful for anyone who may have an interest in death. Thank you for your insight.

You are awesome

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Caitlin is such a storyteller and really beings the book to life, so to speak.....

I loved this book!

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I really enjoyed this book. It makes you look at different cultures and how they grieve.

Great book

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Very interesting and eye opening book. Made me look death in different perspective. Helped my grief.

Made me think

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First and foremost, I must start by saying that I have a real phobia of death and dying. That being said, it is odd that I enjoy Caitin's books as much as I do, but that is really more due to her style and knowledge. Her overall approach to death is one of a perpetual student with the utmost respect for heritage and the advancements in the practice. While there were moments in the book when I started to feel anxious about the thoughts of dying, but Caitlin has such an openness in her approach to death that it truly sets the reader at ease. It was also fascinating to learn about different cultures and practices when it comes to death. Her observations of culture and new practices are fascinating and offer some great information to think over for one's wishes.

Caitlin Doughty makes death more normal yet again!

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I originally bought the Kindle version and read it and so I decided to listen to it on audio book. It was very informative and very interesting. I really enjoy the author and her YouTube page.

From Here To Eternity

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I enjoy Caitlin Doughty performance and story. can't wait for another book. The stories from around the world makes you wonder how we can reform the death industry

great book

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I loved this book from start to finish. I learned so much from caitlin and her travels.

love this book!

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