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From here to eternity : traveling the world to find the good death / Caitlin Doughty.
Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette- smoking, wish- granting human skulls), and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. From Here to Eternity introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning--including a glowing--Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre--and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501973802
- ISBN: 1501973800
- Physical Description: 5 audio discs (5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2017]
- Copyright: ℗2017
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| General Note: | Title from container. Compact disc. In container (17 cm.). |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by the author. |
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| Subject: | Funeral rites and ceremonies. Death. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | 393 DOUGHTY (Text) | 2004112980 | Non-Fiction Shelves | In transit | - |
| North Kansas City Public Library | AUDIO CD 393 DOUGHTY 2017 (Text) | 0001002304721 | Audiobook | Available | - |
