From Here to Eternity

I love Ask a Mortician and I also love Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory so I was counting down for this book to get here! I got to finish all of it uninterrupted on my plane trip and it was amazing. I am familiar with Paul Koudounaris and his works, such asMemento Mori: The Dead Among Us, but his books have small print and are harder to read, this book was really amazing to read all about other cultures way of celebrating death and their rituals for the dead.

This was a great book and I learned so much about other's death cultures and a little bit more about cultures that I was somewhat more familiar with. My favorite chapter is about the pyre in Colorado, The Monks caring for ashes in Japan, and the natitas skulls in Bolivia...but really all the book's chapters are captivating. I highly recommend! ~Ashley