University City Public Library Book Challenge: From Here To Eternity: Traveling The World To Find The Good Death

Press release from University City Public Library Book Challenge:

March 4, 2022

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlyn Doughty, 272 pages

In From Here to Eternity, mortician and self described "Death Enthusiast" Caitlyn Doughty travels the world to answer her own questions about funerals and funerary rights.

In Indonesia, we find families who care for their loved ones for years after their deaths. Spain shows us familiar, but distinctly different funerals where families put walls of glass between themselves and the dead. In America, a graduate student researches how best to return us to the earth from whence we came. From digital Buddhas to candle lit cemeteries, the author continuously challenges the reader to look toward their own mortality and decide for themselves what they consider a "Good Death".

This press release was produced by University City Public Library Book Challenge. The views expressed here are the author’s own.