![]() American death practices, she writes, have become brief, distant and sterile. But Doughty is a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld, and the weirder things get, the happier she seems.Īn undertaker who runs a nonprofit funeral home, Doughty hosts the playful web series “Ask a Mortician” and has basically become the hipster-philosopher of a nascent death-positive movement that’s emerged in America in recent years. “From Here to Eternity” is billed as a search for “the good death” - a bummer of a journey if ever I heard one. In her latest book, Caitlin Doughty, the self-proclaimed “funeral industry rabble-rouser,” takes readers on a tour of the globe’s most unusual death and grieving practices. ![]() ![]() FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Traveling the World to Find the Good Death By Caitlin Doughty Illustrated by Landis Blair 248 pp. ![]()
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