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03270aam a22004218i 4500 001 F58A87AAC93011E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 008 171102t20182017meua db 000 0deng 010 $a 2017050806 020 $a 1432848534 020 $a 9781432848538 035 $a (OCoLC)1010700788 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BKL $d NDS $d UIB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a RA622 $b .D68 2018 082 00 $a 393/.93 $2 23 100 1 $a Doughty, Caitlin, $e author. 245 10 $a From here to eternity (large print) : $b traveling the world to find the good death / $c Caitlin Doughty ; illustrations by Landis Blair. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2018. 300 $a 295 pages (large print) : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n large print. $2 rda 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291). 505 0 $a Colorado: Crestone -- Indonesia: South Sulawesi -- Mexico: MichoacaÌn -- North Carolina: Cullowhee -- Spain: Barcelona -- Japan: Tokyo -- Bolivia: La Paz -- California: Joshua Tree. 520 $a Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world's funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico's DiÌas de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light. Doughty contends that the American funeral industry sells a particular -- and, upon close inspection, peculiar -- set of 'respectful' rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary, pumped full of chemicals, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our expensive, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process. Illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality. 600 10 $a Doughty, Caitlin $x Travel. 650 0 $a Undertakers and undertaking. 650 0 $a Bereavement $v Cross-cultural studies. 650 0 $a Funeral rites and ceremonies $v Cross-cultural studies. 650 0 $a Death $x Social aspects $v Cross-cultural studies. 700 1 $a Blair, Landis, $e illustrator. 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119015053.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006114130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F58A87AAC93011E88539171297128E48 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search