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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
5.0
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This book was just so fascinating! I'm currently in mortuary school, so it makes sense that I'd be attracted to a book that was written by a mortician about death. I wanted to learn more about death practices in other cultures and this is really a great book for that!
Caitlin traveled around the world to learn more about death in different cultures and I love how she did this as respectively as she could, plus acknowledged how tourism affects these practices.
I think it's extremely interesting that death is practiced in widely different way around the world. A few of the practices touched on in this novel are: Día de Muertos, the beautiful columbarias in Japan, an open pyre in Colorado, and a ton more very interesting practices!
I love how she highlights how odd our death practices are here in the United States compared to the rest of the world. Death almost seems like a taboo here in the states, which as a future funeral director, I really don't understand.
I wish more people would read this book! It is eye opening and just very fascinating! I also suggest checking out Caitlin Doughty's YouTube channel, Ask a Mortician! She talks about all kinds of death related things on there! Give in to your morbid curiosity! I'm glad I did!
This book was just so fascinating! I'm currently in mortuary school, so it makes sense that I'd be attracted to a book that was written by a mortician about death. I wanted to learn more about death practices in other cultures and this is really a great book for that!
Caitlin traveled around the world to learn more about death in different cultures and I love how she did this as respectively as she could, plus acknowledged how tourism affects these practices.
I think it's extremely interesting that death is practiced in widely different way around the world. A few of the practices touched on in this novel are: Día de Muertos, the beautiful columbarias in Japan, an open pyre in Colorado, and a ton more very interesting practices!
I love how she highlights how odd our death practices are here in the United States compared to the rest of the world. Death almost seems like a taboo here in the states, which as a future funeral director, I really don't understand.
I wish more people would read this book! It is eye opening and just very fascinating! I also suggest checking out Caitlin Doughty's YouTube channel, Ask a Mortician! She talks about all kinds of death related things on there! Give in to your morbid curiosity! I'm glad I did!