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From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
13 reviews
leweylibrary's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Body horror, and Grief
Moderate: Suicide
eve81's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body horror and Death
booksandmagic's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Grief, Body horror, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia
loverrbboy's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Body horror
Minor: Suicide
sunnybugz's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Body horror
bookverm's review against another edition
4.5
I really enjoyed Caitlin’s journey through various cultures and how they handle their dead, plus how they handle the families of the dead. A very poignant look into how here in the U.S. we’ve become culturally distanced from and afraid of death. She stresses the importance of how seeing death, being close to death, and allowing space and time to actually grieve properly and be with the body, instead of separated from it, can help us grieve and heal.
It definitely opened my eyes to new ways I’d like to demand the bodies of my loved ones, and my own self, be treated in death.
I actually think it could have been a bit longer - I found myself wanting to learn more about each culture’s practices and having to do some research on my own afterwards.
If you’ve read Caitlin’s first book, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, I would say this was a less descriptively gory, though it does still describe bodies and some states of decay. It also does bring up some emotions so while I would describe it as a “quick read,” and Caitlin injects some humor and a lighthearted tone, I actually put the book down for a while and then came back to it because reading about death in this way can be a bit heavy.
Moderate: Death and Body horror
nebraskanwriter's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Abortion, Death, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Blood, and Death of parent
renereadsthings's review against another edition
4.5
This book contains a lot of ways in how the United States views death and ways countries around the world embrace death that are different. It gave me insight on what I’d like to do for myself and it helped me open up to the idea of others ways your body can find peace. It challenges the norm in the United States on how we die and what we define as a dignified death. This helped a lot with being okay with my death and the death of others.
I would love to learn more about how other cultures view the dead. This book is a good stepping stone. If your familiar with death culture this could be a bit of a bore since 3 sections surround death culture in the United States. If it gave more insight or prevalence of other cultures I think this would of been a 5 star read for me. Then again maybe a lot of cultures cross and it shows how we are breaking traditional death culture in the states.
Graphic: Body horror
emfass's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Terminal illness, Abortion, Blood, Miscarriage, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror
joanlizluna's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body horror