From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords: 
Burial Customs
 Death
 Sociology
 Travel
Shared by:jodindy
Written by
Read by Caitlin Doughty
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 10-03-17
Publisher: Recorded Books
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 fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is a fascinating global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America.
In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather’s mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones’ bones from cremation ashes.
With boundless curiosity and gallows humor, Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world’s funerary history. She introduces death care innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico’s Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light.
Doughty contends that the American funeral industry sells a particular—and, upon close inspection, peculiar—set of “respectful” rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary, pumped full of chemicals, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our expensive, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process.
VERDICT Recommend this fascinating and well-written book to fans of Mary Roach’s Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
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| Part - 002 Colorado.mp3 15.09 MBs | |
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 4.2/5
July 17th, 2018
Thank you so much! I think I heard about this book through scifri … looking forward to listen to it.
Thank you for sharing!
July 17th, 2018
Her other book is happily seeding away,,,,J
https://biographyaudio.org/audio-books/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-and-other-lessons-from-the-crematory-caitlin-doughty/
July 18th, 2018
Thahnk you very much!
July 20th, 2018
Thank you so much, jodindy. I’m checking out the other book as well
July 21st, 2018
Much appreciated.Thanks.
July 22nd, 2018
Authors more often than not make lousy narrators, as is the case in this offering.
September 25th, 2018
mklangelo is very wrong in their opinion of Caitlin Doughty being a lousy narrator as I find her voice and her narration style very pleasing and she really draws you into her world.
January 26th, 2023
Please reseed this
January 29th, 2025
Is it possible to reseed this? Thanks
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