Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin
Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other
cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to
wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's
funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat
the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the
American funeral industry-especially chemical embalming-and
suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow
mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased.
Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to
Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating
tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.
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