From Here to Eternity Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Caitlin Doughty, Doughty Caitlin
• Con la collaborazione di: Landis Blair (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.01.2019
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9781474606530
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0653-0
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.7 x 19.7 x 1.8 cm
• Categorie: TRAVEL / General, MEDICAL / General, Val McDermid, Atul Gawande, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Anthropology, All that remains, Travel writing, Popular medicine & health, Henry Marsh, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Mary Roach, Rana Awdish, Swedish death cleaning, Human biology, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Dolly Alderton, Popular medicine and health, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Medical Anthropology, Forensics, Carla Valentine, Books about death, this is going to hurt, being mortal, with the end in mind, stiff, do no harm, sue black, Rachel Clarke, your life in my hands, in shock, Thomas lynch, funeral director, funeral practices, mortician, jessica mitford, Marsh Admissions, Lindsay Lindsey Fitzharris, Seamus O'Mahony, Biography Medical, Butchering Art, the undertaking, last act of love, working stiff, Brandy Schillace, Science Nature Medicine, Death practices, Judy Melinek, Speciality Travel Adventure, The D Word, Travel Holiday, Customs Folklore, Paul Koudounaris, Biography Science Mathematics Technology Science, The Way We Die Now, Kathryn Katherine Mannix, Scientific Technical Medical, Adam Key, Landis Blair