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Perfect for fans of popular science and unconventional non-fiction, this set is a thought-provoking, funny introduction to the death-positive movement from one of its leading voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death sees practising mortician Caitlin Doughty set out across the globe to meet cultures unburdened by the Western fear of dead bodies. From a family in rural Indonesia who lovingly maintain a mummified relative at home, to Bolivian ñatitas (wish-granting human skulls) and the glowing-Buddha columbarium of Japan, Doughty investigates funerary customs almost entirely unknown in the West. With curiosity and morbid humour she questions what it truly means to treat the dead with dignity, and reveals possibilities for our own death rituals that modern America has long forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies takes on the frank, funny questions Doughty receives every day from her youngest fans. In thirty-five candid answers she covers the science and folklore of what happens to our bodies after death — why corpses groan, why nails appear to keep growing, and what causes the colour changes of decomposition. 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She began working in the funeral industry as a crematory operator at age twenty-three, an experience chronicled in her debut memoir Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. She is the creator of the Ask a Mortician web series and founder of The Order of the Good Death, a nonprofit promoting honest conversation around death. Doughty owns a family-centred funeral home in Los Angeles and has authored several New York Times bestsellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy You'll Love This Set\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoy non-fiction that informs as much as it entertains, this pairing of global death rituals and everyday mortal curiosities is unmissable. Doughty's warm, witty voice makes even the darkest subject matter feel approachable, humane and genuinely fascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Note: Cover shown reflects the UK edition. 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In Indonesia, she meets families who exhume and lovingly redress mummified relatives during the Ma'nene ritual. In Bolivia, she encounters ñatitas — human skulls kept in homes and cared for as protective, wish-granting spirits. Closer to home, she visits Crestone, Colorado, site of the only legal open-air pyre in the United States, reflecting on how American funerals came to prioritise embalming and emotional distance over genuine mourning. Throughout, Doughty combines careful research with the candour and gallows humour familiar to fans of her \"Ask a Mortician\" series and bestseller Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Illustrated with striking artwork by Landis Blair, the book never sensationalises its subject; instead it builds a compassionate case that societies which keep death close, rather than hidden, often grieve more honestly and heal more completely. 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