{"product_id":"2940170703807","title":"From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to find the Good Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eSmoke Gets in Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with \"dignity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFascinated 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. Featuring Gorey-esque illustrations by artist Landis Blair, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123260047600,"sku":"2940170703807","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170703807_p0.jpg?v=1763814544","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170703807","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}