About the Book: From Here to Eternity
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 Americas 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