From Here to Eternity
Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
Seiten
2019
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-4746-0653-0 (ISBN)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-4746-0653-0 (ISBN)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An eye-opening, entertaining and thought-provoking account of a mortician's journey around the world to discover how other cultures care for their dead
As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning - including a futuristic glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan, a candlelit Mexican cemetery, and America's only open-air pyre. In doing so she expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with 'dignity' and reveals unexpected possibilities for our own death rituals.
As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning - including a futuristic glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan, a candlelit Mexican cemetery, and America's only open-air pyre. In doing so she expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with 'dignity' and reveals unexpected possibilities for our own death rituals.
CAITLIN DOUGHTY was born and raised in Hawaii before gaining a degree in Medieval History from the University of Chicago. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she owns an alternative funeral home, Undertaking LA. She is the creator of the 'Ask a Mortician' web series, the founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and co-founder of Death Salon. She is the author of three New York Times bestsellers - SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY and WILL MY CAT EAT MY EYEBALLS?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2019 |
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| Illustrationen | Landis Blair |
| Zusatzinfo | b&w integrated |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 196 mm |
| Gewicht | 240 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4746-0653-9 / 1474606539 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4746-0653-0 / 9781474606530 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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