From Here to Eternity
Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
(Sprache: Englisch)
Caitlin Doughty investigates the ways in which other cultures may be fostering more dignified, meaningful funeral customs than our own. A clever follow-up to Doughtys debut (which explored death and dying in America through her experiences as a young...
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Caitlin Doughty investigates the ways in which other cultures may be fostering more dignified, meaningful funeral customs than our own. A clever follow-up to Doughtys debut (which explored death and dying in America through her experiences as a young crematorium assistant), From Here to Eternity takes her search for the good death to the far corners of the globe.
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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian ñatitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes.
With boundless curiosity and gallows humor, Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world's funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico's Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light.
Doughty contends that the American funeral industry sells a particular-and, upon close inspection, peculiar-set of "respectful" rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary, pumped full of chemicals, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our expensive, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process.
Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality.
Autoren-Porträt von Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair
Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, and the founder of The Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, California, where she owns a funeral home.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Caitlin Doughty , Landis Blair
- 2017, 272 Seiten, 45 Abbildungen, Masse: 14,6 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Norton
- ISBN-10: 0393249891
- ISBN-13: 9780393249897
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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