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The best-selling writer of Smoke Gets inside your Eye expands our sense of what this means to take care of the inactive with "dignity". Fascinated with our pervasive terror of inactive systems, mortician Caitlin Doughty attempt to discover how other cultures look after their inactive. In rural Indonesia, she observes a guy clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the house for two years, where the family has looked after a warm and respectful romantic relationship. She complies with Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human being skulls) and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which family members use chopsticks to pluck their treasured ones' bones from cremation ashes. With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed systems and participates in convincing, powerful death tactics almost entirely anonymous in America. From Here to Eternity introduces death-care innovators exploring inexperienced burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning - including a glowing Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre - and shows unexpected new choices for our own death rituals. Creator bio: Mortician Caitlin Doughty - web host and originator of Ask a Mortician and the New York Times best-selling writer of Smoke Gets inside your Eye - founded the fatality approval collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. She lives in LA, where she operates her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA.
