From Here to Eternity

Posted on 19 January 2018 by Caitlin Doughty

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. Read From Here to Eternity – kino-fada.fr OK, this might sound really weird.but I ve been to a lot of funerals And I mean a lot As a very young girl, I used to go church on weekends with my grandparents, and they would always go to the funeral home after church It was always the funeral home three day viewings followed by a church service and grave site service Many, many years later a family member passed and was cremated I thought it the oddest thing, completely unheard of I had many long discussions with my husband about it OK, this might sound really weird.but I ve been to a lot of funerals And I mean a lot As a very young girl, I used to go church on weekends with my grandparents, and they would always go to the funeral home after church It was always the funeral home three day viewings followed by a church service and grave site service Many, many years later a family member passed and was cremated I thought it the oddest thing, completely unheard of I had many long discussions with my husband about it as I was so confused I didn t know there was anything different This book was an eye opening experience to see different countries and cultures and their methods of burying the dead.I found it fascinating to learn of so many different methods from an open air funeral pyre, to cultures who keep a body in the house for 5, 10 years mummifying the body, to Indonesia where they prop up their bodies, to Japan where they have ...This is a brief tour of some of the world s strangest burial practices In the epilogue, thanking people, Caitlin says, Finally Landis Blair, who was an all right boyfriend but is now a killer collaborator And that feels like the key to this all right, 3.5 star at best book.It feels like flushed with the deserved success of first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory, the author had decided to have a dual career as of funeral home proprietor and writer and had This is a brief tour of some of the world s strangest burial practices In the epilogue, thanking people, Caitlin says, Finally Landis Blair, who was an all right boyfriend but is now a killer collaborator And that feels like the key to this all right, 3.5 star at best book.It feels like flushed with the deserved success of first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory, the author had decided to have a dual career as of funeral home proprietor and writer and had cast around for a subject to write about it A tour of the world sunusual funerary practices It was so obvious.The... I was sent this book by the publisher after responding to an email sent to a librarian email list they had extras leftover from ALA, and I was ALAleftbehind, so I asked for a few from their list.I knew of Caitlin Doughty but never read her earlier book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory, which talks about her experience running a crematory and funeral home In this book, she visits several different places ...Caitlin Doughty has done it again dragged us death phobic Westerners into the light of what grieving and death could and maybe should look like In From Here to Eternity, Caitlin travels the globe and shares her first hand experiences of getting up close and personal with death rituals from around the world I found each section absolutely captivating, and although the Tana Toraja bit did give me a nightmare last night seriously , I m going to blame that on the ar...I absolutely LOVED this I cannot wait to pick upof Doughty s work and to binge watch her YouTube channel Ask a Mortician In this book, Doughty outlines all of the fucked up ways in which the US death industry is fucked up She looks at expenses, dignity, and the seeming moratorium on public grief here in the states.In ...fascinating book about the various cultures and how they interact with death, and the concept of the departed or loved one were many non western cultures performnatural acts of burial, a non industrial cremation some use a pyre to lit a loved one, while...4.5In her second book, Caitlin takes us around the world to take a look at how other cultures view and treat death If you re already aware of how bizarre, detached and corporate ified the US is about death, this will be a lovely trip through some truly beautiful rituals and cultures If you aren t aware, well, this might be a bit jarring for you Caitlin approaches the topic with respect and just the right amount of humor I can t recommend her writing enough, and would definitely recommend her 4.5In her second book, Caitlin takes us around the world to take a look at how other cultures view and treat death If you re already aware of how bizarre, detached and corporate ified the US is about death, this will be a lovely trip through some truly beautiful rituals and cultures If you aren t aware, well, this might be a bit jarring for y...This was quite interesting as it covers thecommon features of how different cultures approach death The Thai culture was probably theinteresting, as they follow the same ancient traditions as their ancestors.I would recommend this if you had a college class on philosop... From Here to Eternity is the kind of exuberant, passionate non fiction I live for Caitlin Doughty has a deep fascination with death she is a funeral director by trade and her knowledge, enthusiasm and good humor are clearly evident as she describes and de stigmatizes cultural attitudes toward death around the world Many of the stories revolve around her own travels to various parts of the world to witness ceremonies, crypts, crematoria, and columbaria places where cremated remains are kept From Here to Eternity is the kind of exuberant, passionate non fiction I live for Caitlin Doughty has a deep fascination with death she is a funeral director by trade and her knowledge, enthusiasm and good humor are clearly evident as she describes and de stigmatizes cultural attitudes toward death around the world Many of the stories revolve around her own travels to various parts of the world to witness ceremonies, crypts, crematoria, and columbaria places where cremated remains are kept In Colorado, one group has fought legal battles and intense suspicion to offer outdoor cremation In Indonesia, families co habitate with the bodies of their loved ones for many years talking to them, applying preservatives, and bringing them out each year to walk the streets In North Carolina, forensics facilities allow experimentation with human composting In Japan, you might be given a pair of chopsticks to retrieve your loved one s bones following cremation, and a modern facility let...I didn t enjoy this quite as much as Doughty s previous book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory, but some parts were really interesting Himalayan vultures with nine foot wing spans and others quite moving people grieving their dead children.

19 January 2018

Caitlin Doughty