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X-WR-CALDESC:True Story Book Club\n\nFrom Here to Eternity: Traveling the W
 orld to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (272 p.)\n\nFascinated by o
 ur pervasive fear of dead bodies\, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to di
 scover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an i
 mmersive global journey that introduces compelling\, powerful rituals almo
 st entirely unknown in America.\n\nIn rural Indonesia\, she watches a man 
 clean and dress his grandfather’s mummified body\, which has resided in th
 e family home for two years. In La Paz\, she meets Bolivian ñatitas (cigar
 ette-smoking\, wish-granting human skulls)\, and in Tokyo she encounters t
 he Japanese kotsuage ceremony\, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck
  their loved-ones’ bones from cremation ashes.\n\nWith boundless curiosity
  and gallows humor\, Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and inves
 tigates the world’s funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators 
 researching body composting and green burial\, and examines how varied tra
 ditions\, from Mexico’s Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help
  us see our own death customs in a new light.\n\nDoughty contends that the
  American funeral industry sells a particular―and\, upon close inspection\
 , peculiar―set of 'respectful' rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary\, p
 umped full of chemicals\, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our ex
 pensive\, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders
  our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs\, she demonstrates th
 at mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased\,
  and have space to participate in the process.\n\nExquisitely illustrated 
 by artist Landis Blair\, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the mo
 rbid unknown\, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere h
 ave confronted the very human challenge of mortality.\n\n
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DESCRIPTION:True Story Book Club\n\nFrom Here to Eternity: Traveling the Wo
 rld to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (272 p.)\n\nFascinated by ou
 r pervasive fear of dead bodies\, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to dis
 cover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an im
 mersive global journey that introduces compelling\, powerful rituals almos
 t entirely unknown in America.\n\nIn rural Indonesia\, she watches a man c
 lean and dress his grandfather’s mummified body\, which has resided in the
  family home for two years. In La Paz\, she meets Bolivian ñatitas (cigare
 tte-smoking\, wish-granting human skulls)\, and in Tokyo she encounters th
 e Japanese kotsuage ceremony\, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck 
 their loved-ones’ bones from cremation ashes.\n\nWith boundless curiosity 
 and gallows humor\, Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and invest
 igates the world’s funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators r
 esearching body composting and green burial\, and examines how varied trad
 itions\, from Mexico’s Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help 
 us see our own death customs in a new light.\n\nDoughty contends that the 
 American funeral industry sells a particular―and\, upon close inspection\,
  peculiar―set of 'respectful' rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary\, pu
 mped full of chemicals\, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our exp
 ensive\, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders 
 our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs\, she demonstrates tha
 t mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased\, 
 and have space to participate in the process.\n\nExquisitely illustrated b
 y artist Landis Blair\, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the mor
 bid unknown\, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere ha
 ve confronted the very human challenge of mortality.\n\n
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to
  Find the Good Death
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