![]() ![]() It’s that which “helps the mourner begin to heal. She visited glass coffins in Spain a crematorium in Japan, where nearly all residents are cremated and Bolivia, where skulls are said to dispense advice. And everywhere, she saw “grief, unimaginable grief. She went to Mexico, where she met a grieving young mother who “just wanted to engage with death … frequent it, mock it, caress it.”ĭoughty’s travels took her to North Carolina, and a new method of body disposal. ![]() In Indonesia, Doughty visited cliffside graves with “a scholar of the macabre,” who also took her to a village where people live with (and sometimes sleep next to) their dead –perhaps for years. Caitlin Doughty This Study Guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of From Here to Eternity. In a tiny town in Colorado, she visited “the only community open-air pyre in America.” Its founders worked hard to gain acceptance from locals and to change laws regarding open-air cremation today, people relocate in order to take advantage of the pyre. And so, she went in search of a “good death.” ![]()
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