Book Review -- From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Book Review -- From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty By Melinda Gustafson Gervasi November 5, 2021 Keeping with the ghoulish nature of the past week, Halloween and Day of the Dead, I picked up Caitlin Doughty's book, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death . Published in 2018 the book chronicles her travels around the globe to experience death rituals different from those commonly practiced here in the US and Western Europe. The reader travels with the author to Mexico, Japan, Bolivia, Indonesia, Spain and other destinations. Without question this book is a macabre read. Some of the practices explored, such as decomposition of the human body in a literal compost heap are intriguing to those interest in a low carbon end to their earthly time. However, other experiences may be more challenging to read about. For example, the "ma'nene' " in Tana Toraja, Indonesia where relati...