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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 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 natitas (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.

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Doughty is a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld, and the weirder things get, the happier she seems. … [H]er dispatches from the dark side [are] doing us all a kindness—offering a picture of what we’re in for, even if we’d rather not know.—Libby Copeland, New York Times Book Review

Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

Doughty writes bluntly about open-air cremations, natural burials and body composting, bringing a little more clarity and a little less mystery to the question: 'What happens to us after we die?'—NPR (Our Guide to 2017's Great Reads)

[T]he macabre travelogue is a thoughtful reflection and a smart critique of the American funeral industry, with plenty of gallows humor thrown in.—Smithsonian (The Ten Best Travel Books of 2017)

Doughty finds the humanity in others cultures' relationship with death that seems to be lacking in ours.—Justin Caffier, Vice

This slim volume, full of captivating, enlightening, and humorous tidbits, is a—dare I say—uplifting exploration of what people the world over do to withstand loss and the bite of impermanence. This is death as viewed by a mortician: profound, unavoidable, natural, and a bit funny.—KQED

This humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral?—The Times

From Here To Eternity is fascinating, thought-provoking and – who would have guessed? – sometimes funny. Put it on your bucket list.—The Mail

Caitlin Doughty is razor sharp, and writes about death with exceptional clarity and style. From Here to Eternity manages to be both an extremely funny travelogue and a deeply moving book about what death means to us all. —Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura

[Doughty’s] fascinating tour of rituals contains liturgies that readers will surely observe as rare, macabre, unbelievable, ancient, and precious—sometimes simultaneously.—Kirkus

She is the ideal guide on this journey, curious and respectful...Recommended for fans of the author and those with an interest in anthropology and ritual.—Library Journal

A thought-provoking book about the complicated, fascinating world of funerary practices. Unless you and your friends are immortal, this book pertains to you.—A. J. Jacobs

In her jocular but reverential tone… Doughty doesn’t offer a simple morbid travelogue; instead, she digs into diverse death experiences with deep veneration and examines ties to socioeconomic, status, female identity, and religion.—Booklist

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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.

Landis Blair illustrated the prize-winning graphic novel The Hunting Accident and the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity, and has published illustrations in the New York Times, Chicago magazine, and Medium. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ WW Norton; Illustrated edition (Oct. 3 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393249891
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393249897
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 408 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.73 x 2.54 x 21.84 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #243,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Landis Blair is the author and illustrator of The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes, as well as the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity and the graphic novel The Hunting Accident, which won the 2021 Fauve d’Or and the 2020 Quai des Bulles prize. His illustrations have appeared in numerous print and online periodicals including The New Yorker, the New York Times, Chicago magazine, VQR, and Medium. He lives in Chicago. Photo by Andi Linden.
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Caitlin Doughty is a writer and death acceptance advocate. She started working in the funeral industry as a crematory operator at age 23, a job described in her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Since then she founded the nonprofit Order of the Good Death, started the Ask a Mortician Youtube series, and introduced the movement of death awareness and death positivity in the Western world. She owns a family-centered funeral home in Southern California. Her other New York Times bestsellers are From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
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Amy T.

so good

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one of the best books i ever read i’m a huge fan of ask a mortician so it was no brainer for me, for sure the best book i have read this year so far, very excited to read her other books in the future

Reviewed in Canada on October 7, 2022

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Livre comme neuf. Bien contente 🙂

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A McCray

Get a copy, for your soul

Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2021

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Such a beautiful book full of some of the most well-told stories about death, death positivity, and the strangest people that everyone knows a version of. Caitlin is one of my favourite story-tellers in general and you can certainly read this book in her voice at most times. The illustrations are illuminating while going well with a rich text. Also the cover in hardcover and paperback are gorgeous.

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Winona W.

Fascinating Read!!!! I could not put it down!!!

Reviewed in Canada on May 28, 2021

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I have given this book to 2 of my friends as a gift and they both loved it. It makes you look at death in a whole new light...in a good way!!!

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Maggie Wright

Loved it

Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2021

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I love Caitlyn Doughty's writing style. It is very similar to her videos so I always find it engaging, funny and enlightening. Arguably her best book.

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Adrianna

Fantastic Read

Reviewed in Canada on October 5, 2021

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Really enjoyed the stories from around the world, great look into more death positivity

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Thought provoking and intense

Reviewed in Canada on March 21, 2018

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Caitlin Doughty truly gives us a small peek into not only Death but also grief and mourning. By sharing her own experiences with different cultures she opens up to how we have become to fear death and the body we leave behind. The illustrations are simplistic but elegant and showcase the beauty, finality and curiosity of the rituals and bodies described by the author. I'm thrilled to have read and gained a deeper understanding of such an interesting and important topic rarely discussed in today's time

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Juliet Branco

Traditions should be shared

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Great follow up to Smoke Gets in the Eyes. It was interesting to read about different traditions around the world surrounding death. Wish more of those traditions could and would be honoured in North America. Great read! Thanks Doughty!

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M Stojanova

unusual and rare topic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2023

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Death, or rather, “burial” practices and final goodbyes, as well as ongoing post-mortem honouring of the dead, are the key topics explored in this book. The author takes us on global tour exploring different cultures and practices for honouring the dead. The entire time, comparing and contrasting these to those practiced in the West (US in particular) advocating at all times against the disenfranchised and distancing rituals we practice, as if death could be tricked or avoided by a pane of glass or a thick casket. Very worthwhile read. Makes one think.

Laura Herrera

Great light reading

Reviewed in Germany on July 4, 2023

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I recently lost 2 important people in my life and I can't relate to the way my culture deals with grief. Really enjoy how other cultures do it!

NinjaSquirrel

Cool Book

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023

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I love this author.

Piyali Mukherjee

Moving commentary on life, if not death itself

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2023

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These essays span a range of countries and cultures that Doughty has witnessed processing their dead and their grief. Not only did I learn about the process of embalming, cremating and burial, but also I learned about the emotional value of ritual, of showing up and of how commercialization of deathcare has led to a growing sanitization and suppression of genuine grief.

Some of the essays genuinely made me think about the autonomy that women are allowed to have over their bodies (and whether their choice of death is a final grasping claim for it). Some of the essays also made me realize, as Doughty puts it, that the American need for a dignified aesthetic death actually takes away from the fact that death and grief are emotionally messy. By not providing actual time for the families and loved ones to process the absence of their deceased, to appreciate the decomposing body as not just a corpse but as a vessel of their loved one, and by not providing a safe shameless space for grief, Commercial American funeral services aren't letting people find the emotional connection and closure that death provides.

I also like that despite the constant discussion of death, Doughty's writing has a serious and yet pleasant tone to it. She makes jokes without making fun of the dead or of the sacredness of dying. She writes about her travels in a way that seeks to genuinely explore the cultures that she visits, rather than capture them in some exploitative way. Maybe my final takeaway from this book is that it gave me a lot of consideration on how I would like my body to be handled after death, and asking my parents the same.

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"No matter what it takes, the hard work begins for the West to haul our fear, shame, and grief surrounding death out into the disinfecting light of the sun."

I was first introduced to the singular energy of Caitlin Doughty via her Youtube channel, Ask a Mortician, as I'm sure many others have as well. To say that Caitlin (and by extension The Order of the Good Death) has changed my life would not quite do her work justice. She changed my life by changing my death, and the way I view it.

Long before Caitlin, I knew that embalming/ burial was just not for me. I always thought cremation was my only other option, and so I settled my mind to it. But just as the book sets out to explain (and in my personal experience, accomplishes), the Western views and in fact culture surrounding death is not only limited, but capitalistic and toxic in its roots. Learning from Caitlin's videos, this book, and The Order, I know with certainty what my death plan is (still leaving room for some improvisation, of course). My sister, who is also a fan, has begun contemplating hers, and together we have began the conversation. We are hoping to soon begin (slowly and unthreateningly) opening the doors of communication with our family members.

Getting back to the subject of the book, I can only speak from the perspective of someone already in agreement wanting to learn more. And I was happy for the education. Learning about other cultures and their relationship with Death and the dead, it brings a sliver of light. That light, unfortunately, also makes the flaws of our own death culture, but hopefully the days to come bring change.

The stories and experiences told through Caitlin's perspective are as ever-charming as she, and I can easily picture her in each situation. These are not unbiased experiences, of course, but is a bias towards a peaceful and dignified relationship with Death a bad thing, honestly? As someone who wants a natural burial and a "green" death, I was thrilled to learn about more options fighting for their rightful place in society. I now know of organizations to fight for, and perhaps donate my body to. The talented illustrations were equal parts entertaining and educational.

If you are reaching for this book out of curiosity (morbid or otherwise), then welcome. I hope you learn something new. I hope it makes you think, perhaps rethink. I hope you can feel Caitlin's passion and drive within the words and pages. Perhaps give a look at her channel and/or her website. Happy reading, fellow and future Deathlings!

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