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

Title: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Author: Caitlin Doughty ISBN: 9780393249897 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 2017 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine F 1639889 Publisher Description: 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 crem