A review by loverrbboy
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

challenging emotional hopeful informative

5.0

CW, this book isn’t sad but this review kinda is
when i had to have my cat put down last year, i had spend hundreds on vet bills, and was emotionally exhausted from months of trying to treat her. i didn’t want to spend more on things that weren’t important to me. i opted to have her cremated cheaply, which meant not receiving any ashes (i didn’t want them anyway - a reminder of how very dead she was and would now always be). i instead asked for ink prints to be made of her paws, and a little jar with a piece of her fur, and i treasure them. i didn’t know at the time that i could have buried her naturally, at home, and when i learned i could have (had i been more open about it), i was devastated. my great grandmother who i barely knew died and i didn’t go to the funeral.
i’m hoping that with this book under my belt, i can take the time to be more comfortable with death in the future. 
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