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  • Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
  • Written by: Caitlin Doughty
  • Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
  • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (273 ratings)

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From Here to Eternity

Written by: Caitlin Doughty
Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
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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 terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls) and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved ones' bones from cremation ashes.

With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. From Here to Eternity introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning - including a glowing Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre - and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals.

Author bio: Mortician Caitlin Doughty - host and creator of Ask a Mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA.

©2017 Caitlin Doughty (P)2017 Recorded Books

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Amazing Content! Stellar author.

Caitlin Doughty has delivered another amazing book that delves into the mortuary practices around the world. Her first book was amazing and this is just as good. Caitlin is the narrator and you can clearly tell she has a passion for her work, as it shows through the stellar writing.
I loved this book and I highly recommend picking it up, and her first book as well.
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Very interesting

Whole new perspective. Enjoyed the entire thing. I have new “end of life” plan to share with my family

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A great listen on a very personal topic

I love her frank yet sensitive insight on global experiences of the dead. I find myself often considering my personal mortality, and I agree with the notion as one particpant puts it, that it is important to "pay the bill" i.e. contemplate death to come to terms with this fundamental part of our lives.

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Great insight into 'the good death'

I am a long time follower of Caitlin Doughty on YouTube. I appreciate her frankness, commitment to facts and quirky compassion to how different cultures and families grieve. I would highly recommend this book, and her other two books for someone looking to be more death positive - or simply to start exploring the topic.

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really good listen

caitlin is amazing, my wife and I love her. and have decided to have a natural burial service because of what we have read.

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Learned so much!

I love all of Caitlin's books, but I think this one is my favourite! I learned so much about different cultures and started my unlearning of what I thought to be "normal" death practices.
I figured not much of it would be news to me, seeing how I've watched all of her YouTube videos, but she has so much more to share. Can't wait to see what she teaches me next!

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death made accessible

I always enjoy Caitlins work, and have her narrate her own book was really awesome. it is always interesting to learn about death culture in other areas of the world.

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Death is okay

Caitlin beings her signature style to discussing the hard topics of death and what comes after. With kindness and a sense of humour she addresses death grief and facing loss. And that however you want to honour your dead is okay. In conclusion I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the authors narration of it

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You never thought death would be so interesting

Caitlin has a natural gift for bringing you into the story and experiencing the moment as if you are standing there with her. Performance was great and I learned more than a few things. Although talking about death can be uncomfortable, Caitlin takes you on a journey to be more open and have a different perspective on death it's self and grief. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this audio book and recommend it.

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As enjoyable and educational as her YouTube videos

I have been enjoying Caitlin’s YouTube videos and now I am enjoying her books. She is an amazing death educator with tremendous wit, humour and compassion for a topic that could be somewhat depressing.
I highly recommend listening or reading this book and feel that it should be mandatory reading for all grade 9 students in whatever course deals with life skills or comparative culture.

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