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From Here to Eternity – Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Paperback – 9 October 2018

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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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From Here To Eternity is fascinating, thought-provoking and--who would have guessed?--sometimes funny. Put it on your bucket list.-- "Mail on Sundays"

Caitlin Doughty is razor sharp, and writes about death with exceptional clarity and style. From Here to Eternity manages to be both an extremely funny travelogue and a deeply moving book about what death means to us all.--Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura

Doughty finds the humanity in others cultures' relationship with death that seems to be lacking in ours.-- "VICE"

Doughty is a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld, and the weirder things get, the happier she seems.... Her dispatches from the dark side [are] doing us all a kindness--offering a picture of what we're in for, even if we'd rather not know.-- "New York Times Book Review"

Doughty writes bluntly about open-air cremations, natural burials and body composting, bringing a little more clarity and a little less mystery to the question: 'What happens to us after we die?'-- "NPR"

Illuminating.... From Here to Eternity humanizes rituals that might otherwise seem unfathomable.-- "Paste"

It sounds a bit like Eat, Pray, Die, but her project is much larger than its premise first implies. She is searching not for personal spiritual enlightenment or the morbid titillation of thana-tourism, but for practical, radical alternatives to our corporatized death industry. Her travels illuminate a host of compelling possibilities for better funerals and a less fraught relationship with our dead.-- "New Republic"

The macabre travelogue is a thoughtful reflection and a smart critique of the American funeral industry, with plenty of gallows humor thrown in.-- "Smithsonian"

This humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral?-- "The Times"

Thought-provoking.... Unless you and your friends are immortal, this book pertains to you.--A. J. Jacobs

About the Author

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, and the founder of The Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, California, where she owns a funeral home.

Landis Blair illustrated the prize-winning graphic novel The Hunting Accident and the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity, and has published illustrations in the New York Times, Chicago magazine, and Medium. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 9 October 2018
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393356280
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393356281
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.03 x 21.08 cm
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    Caitlin Doughty is a writer and death acceptance advocate. She started working in the funeral industry as a crematory operator at age 23, a job described in her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Since then she founded the nonprofit Order of the Good Death, started the Ask a Mortician Youtube series, and introduced the movement of death awareness and death positivity in the Western world. She owns a family-centered funeral home in Southern California. Her other New York Times bestsellers are From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

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    Landis Blair is the author and illustrator of The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes, as well as the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity and the graphic novel The Hunting Accident, which won the 2021 Fauve d’Or and the 2020 Quai des Bulles prize. His illustrations have appeared in numerous print and online periodicals including The New Yorker, the New York Times, Chicago magazine, VQR, and Medium. He lives in Chicago. Photo by Andi Linden.

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  • M. T.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good Take on this Topic
    Reviewed in Australia on 15 June 2025
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    Interesting book and a great read.
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  • Amanda
    5.0 out of 5 stars Caitlin Delivers Death Again
    Reviewed in Australia on 6 February 2020
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    Caitlin writes about death and it’s rituals as if she is having a chat with you. I wondered about her easy writing style & then read that she has a degree in History. Ahh a fellow historian, all that reading and essay writing, collating information and long book lists. This is just a big essay for Caitlin..
    I adored the comparisons and descriptions of death rituals and “coping mechanisms” - most of which I would know nothing about if not for this entertaining and informative book.
    I appreciated the great descriptions of the people and the places - my favourite HAS to be the Buddha Burial Temple.
    It bounces easily from one culture to another, little dense tastes. Well chosen, well written, giving you a good idea and thirst for more...
    I think Caitlin should do a Book2. Go to places she missed - as funds obviously ran low. China, Africa, Iceland, Korea (north?), New Zealand ( she can stay with us to save $$) and maybe a Pacific island ( Solomon, Trobriand, Papua, Aitutaki)
    Caitlin, please keep going with all your work, love it all. Been watching your YouTube from almost the start and love your books.
    I do recommend this great book, but watch the YouTube channel too.
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  • Marie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Original
    Reviewed in Australia on 27 January 2023
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    I understood the traditions from different perspectives and learned a lot on the topic. Great book.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking
    Reviewed in Australia on 3 May 2021
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    This was our book club pick for april 2021. I thought I would hate it but it waa fantastic. It was so educational and interesting
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  • J Reynolds
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating
    Reviewed in Australia on 21 September 2020
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    Caitlyn is briiliant with words and this book is so full of interesting,meaningful,cultural death practices of different peoples around the world.Her other book is just as good plus you can see her on utube.
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  • MR WOLF 15G
    5.0 out of 5 stars Youtube to books, thoroughly entertaining.
    Reviewed in Australia on 23 April 2018
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    Doughty has a real skill as an entertaining youtuber and writer.
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  • Chrissy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
    Reviewed in Australia on 30 July 2022
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    Love morbid books. Great read just read it!
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  • teresina pasterk
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, well written and funny
    Reviewed in Germany on 19 January 2018
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    A coherent example of actually giving the reader exactly what the title says. The book, which is written as a mixture of personal stories and well researched additional information, paints a clear image of different funeral practices (as well as dealing with death in general) around the world. It is highly interesting and very informative, while never failing to entertain. Would highly recommend!!
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  • zombiexhumed
    5.0 out of 5 stars Deadly good to read
    Reviewed in Brazil on 16 March 2025
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    How do other people think and behave about death around the world ? Will I have my dead body burnt ? Shall hearse get me into an hellish subway station ? Read this awesome book and you'll find out. A very interesting book about the dead, for those who, will be dead too.
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  • J. Proctor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another Excellent Death Positive Book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2018
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    Having read Caitlin's last book "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", I eagerly anticipated "From Here To Eternity" when I learned that she was in the process of writing it.

    And I honestly can't recommend it highly enough.

    Reading about the death practices of other countries might not be everybody's cup of tea, but "From Here To Eternity" is written in such a way that you can't help but like it. I read every part of it, including the references, which I don't always do, but I could hardly put this down, I was so fascinated by it.

    We have a strange relationship with death, for the main, in England. However, if more people were to read books like this one (I can't say that there is an over-abundance of them because I just don't know) I think there would probably be a shift in how we look at the physical aspect of death and dying as a biological process (because it is, after all, just another biological process), how we treat people when and after they die and actually what we *do* with the dead. After all, these people were once a part of us, as we are of them and they deserve our respect, even after they are gone. Not our fear. Not our desire to make their bodies last for ever by embalming them either.

    Did you know that in Japan they have a 95% cremation rate? I learned that from this book. Also, the Diás de los Muertos carnival didn't inspire the one in the Bond film? It was the other way round!

    There is a whole wealth of death cultures in the world that we in the main don't even know about (I think this is largely probably to do with the fear of death that so many people in the West have, but we can't avoid it can we?) and reading this book opens our eyes a little.

    If you haven't read "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" either, buy them both. Read them on the bounce. Expand your mind a little and let's all become more death positive.

    I already know what I would like to happen to my mortal remains after I die - and this doesn't include pumping them full of formaldehyde!

    Do you?
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  • Magdalena
    5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING
    Reviewed in Poland on 19 April 2021
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    It's realy plesant to read and even by knowing a lot on the topic i was surprised a few times :) And the drawings in it are a realy nice addition. Book came in perfect condition.
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  • Federica
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have!
    Reviewed in Italy on 13 November 2017
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    I discovered Caitlin through youtube, and I knew the moment she mentioned this book, that I had to read it. I knew she would not disappoint me, and this book is absolutely beautiful and captivating. It is interesting, clear, and it keeps you hooked until the end because of its new and...well, "strange" content: as Doughty herself points out numerous times, in modern society we seems to be scared or even not enough informed (if that makes sense) about death, with the sad result of not giving it the space it, and WE need to embrace it and comprehend it's just another part of the cycle of life. I really suggest this reading, so that you can have a moment face to face with this reality and be more informed about it and how the funeral homes works. Last but not least, the book is really well-written, and I gladly found in it the usual "comic" side of this brilliant woman.
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