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From Here to Eternity

Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

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From Here to Eternity

Von: Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair
Gesprochen von: Caitlin Doughty
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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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Each chapter covers a culture with a highly distinctive and apparently ghastly approach to their dearly departed . . . Think Bill Bryson doing an underworld special. This humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral?
Caitlin Doughty, joyful member of the death-positive movement, describes what happens to our mortal remains with relish . . . Jaunty, boisterous and unsentimental, Doughty believes that we in the West have made death and its aftermath into a corporate, perfunctory affair, in which the meaning of an ending is denied. Her mission is to 'reclaim public understanding of dying' and to bring individuality and joy back into our dealings with the dead (Nicci Gerard)
Compelling . . . Doughty's writing will give you the giggles as well as send a chill down your spine
From Here To Eternity is fascinating, thought-provoking and - who would have guessed? - sometimes funny. Put it on your bucket list (Neil Armstrong)
Doughty's lively (and charmingly illustrated) cascade of anecdotes about how various cultures handle death spells out how contemporary Western fastidiousness about dead bodies is by no means universally shared. We are introduced to a variety of startling practices . . . and pervading the book is Doughty's ferocious critique of the industrialisation of death and burial that is standard in the United States and spreading rapidly elsewhere. Doughty invites us to look at and contemplate alternatives . . . we have choices beyond the conventional; we can think about how we want our dead bodies to be treated as part of a natural physical cycle (Rowan Williams)
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 (Robert McCrum)
Doughty is a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld . . . a likable, witty companion. It is a difficult high-wire act: to make death interesting and funny enough that we'll drop our fears and read, without losing sight of the gravity of the topic. I couldn't help thinking that her dispatches from the dark side were doing us all a kindness
From Here to Eternity is Doughty's tour of the death ways of other peoples, from Bolivia to Barcelona . . . [she] chronicles each of these practices with tenderheartedness, a technician's fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief
Doughty finds the humanity in other cultures' relationship with death that seems to be lacking in ours
From Indonesia to Mexico and all points in between, Doughty talks to a wide array of professionals, handling the topic with curiosity, frankness and no small amount of humour (Doug Johnstone)
Both sensitive and light, and thoroughly researched, written by an author who genuinely wanted to learn from, not fetishise, other customs
Really fascinating (Alice Waters)
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Caitlin takes you with her around the world and let’s you experience the different kinds of death and traditions in a respectful and informative manner.
She opens your eyes to new possibilities for grief and healing in a beautiful way, and shows what a good death could be.
Highly recommended for everyone, but especially those who have problems dealing with grief, death, corpses, and other morbid subjects that should not be considered morbid or taboo.

It helped me a lot - Informative, respectful, beautiful

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Interesting Storys about different cultures and their relationship to their death. Well researched and entertainingly presented.
The Autor who narrates her book does a very good job. There's only one negative: she tries to get us to understand death practices, who might seem alienating and disturbing to us, asking us to rethink our own relationship to death and what is wrong with the "western way" of funeral homes. I wish she had allowed her audience to come to their own conclusions instead of spelling it out and being yet another person telling others what's right and wrong.

Interesting and thoughtful

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