From Here to Eternity
Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
WW Norton · Print & ebook · October 9, 2018
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead.
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- A thoughtful, darkly humane look at how people make death more bearable.
- Genres
- Death & Dying, Travel Writing, Personal Memoirs
- Published
- WW Norton, October 9, 2018
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved.
Working StiffJudy Melinek MD, T.J. Mitchell60% match
All the Living and the DeadHayley Campbell, Macmillan Audio73% matchShares Death & Dying
Being MortalAtul Gawande59% matchShares Death & Dying
The Good NurseCharles Graeber51% match
Confessions of a Funeral DirectorCaleb Wilde69% matchShares Personal Memoirs
Briefly Perfectly HumanAlua Arthur67% matchShares Death & Dying and Personal Memoirs
It Lasts Forever and Then It's OverAnne de Marcken57% match
For younger readers: The Corpse Queen, Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts, The Ghostkeeper: a Graphic Novel
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead.
Continue reading
From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.
Death, with Company
A thoughtful, darkly humane look at how people make death more bearable.
Come here for
- Warm, unsentimental reflections on death
- Culture-by-culture curiosity
Expect
- Sustained, essay-like travel reading
- A book-club-friendly mix of wit and gravity
Where it sits
| Death & Dying | 90% |
|---|---|
| Travel Writing | 55% |
| Personal Memoirs | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Death & Dying
- Authors
- Caitlin Doughty, Recorded Books, Landis Blair
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- October 9, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs