Name: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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Author: Caitlin Doughty
ISBN: 9780393249897

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Type

Physical Book

Author

Caitlin Doughty

Illustrated by

Landis Blair

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780393249897

Edition No.

Synopsis "From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death "

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.

Caitlin Doughty

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Caitlin Doughty (nacida en 1984 en Oahu, Hawái) es una directora funeraria, escritora, divulgadora y activista estadounidense reconocida por promover una conversación más abierta sobre la muerte y los rituales funerarios. Estudió Historia Medieval en la University of Chicago y posteriormente se formó en ciencias mortuorias, iniciando una carrera profesional en crematorios y servicios funerarios.

Su experiencia trabajando directamente con los fallecidos la llevó a cuestionar la forma en que las sociedades occidentales enfrentan la muerte. En 2011 fundó la The Order of the Good Death, una organización dedicada a fomentar la educación sobre la mortalidad, los derechos funerarios y alternativas más humanas y sostenibles para el final de la vida.

Doughty alcanzó gran notoriedad gracias a su canal de YouTube Ask a Mortician, donde aborda temas relacionados con la muerte, el duelo y la historia funeraria de manera accesible y educativa. Además, es autora de varios libros superventas, entre ellos Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, From Here to Eternity y Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?. Su trabajo ha contribuido a transformar el debate público sobre la muerte, promoviendo una visión más consciente, informada y menos tabú de este aspecto fundamental de la experiencia humana.

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