From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Summary
Caitlin Doughty

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Overview

From Here to Eternity follows mortician Caitlin Doughty's journey as she travels around the world to explore cross-cultural death rituals. Her travels in the United States showcase alternative burial practices which challenge the established commercialization of death care. Her experiences in Indonesia, Mexico, Spain, Japan, and Bolivia highlight how other cultures confront death and deathcare in diverse and often more intimate ways. From Here To Eternity: Traveling The World to Find The Good Death explores themes of death avoidance and proximity, death rituals, the relationship between deathcare and the environment, the commercialization of death, and the lack of choice and agency in death rituals.