Overnight Delivery on 80,000 Books 🚀

Order today and you could recieve a Golden Bookmark! ✨

From Here to Eternity

Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
By Caitlin Doughty
0.0 (0 reviews)
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Summary
In From Here to Eternity, Caitlin Doughty takes readers on a profound exploration of death rituals around the world. She delves into how different cultures approach the end of life, seeking alternatives to Western practices and uncovering a diverse array of ceremonies. Through her compassionate narrative, Doughty challenges readers to reconsider their views on mortality and cultural customs surrounding death.
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$2799
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book might appeal to you if you're fascinated by cultural practices around death and curious about how different societies handle the end of life. Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, explores diverse death rituals across the world with a blend of humour and insight, offering a thought-provoking journey into an often taboo subject.

Book Hero thinking about your next read

From Here to Eternity

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

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

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 and participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West. She 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.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty is praised for its engaging and humorous writing style, drawing comparisons to a Bill Bryson exploration of the afterlife. Doughty's journey through global death rituals is noted for its curiosity and insightful look into cultures that handle death without Western taboos. The book is both fascinating and amusing, with many recommending it as a worthwhile read.

Book Hero reading reviews

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474606530

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 January 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Illustration: b&w integrated

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Landis Blair

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 272

Collections

Biography & Memoir Caitlin Doughty Education & Reference Grief & Loss Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Science & Nature Science & Technology Biographies Self-Help & Personal Development Travel & Adventure

About the Author

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, writer and advocate for funeral industry reform. In 2011 she founded the non-profit The Order of the Good Death, which spawned the death positive movement and is working to legalise human composting and aquamation in all fifty states of the USA. Her educational documentaries as 'Ask a Mortician' have been viewed over 250 million times and all three of her books - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - were New York Times bestsellers. She founded a Los Angeles funeral home, Clarity Funerals, and currently lives in upstate New York.

Also by Caitlin Doughty

View all

More from Science & Nature

View all

Why buy from us?

Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!

Service & Delivery

Service & Delivery

Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.

Auckland Bookstore

Auckland Bookstore

We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.

Our Gifting Service

Our Gifting Service

Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.