Caitlin Doughty - Até à Eternidade

What does it mean to treat the dead with dignity? Fascinated by our widespread fear of death, Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures deal with death and care for the dead.

Until Eternity is an immersive journey around the world that introduces us to fascinating and powerful, almost unknown rituals. In rural Indonesia, she accompanies a man in the task of cleaning and dressing the mummified body of his grandfather.

In La Paz, she encounters the ñatitas, human skulls that smoke cigarettes and grant wishes, and in Tokyo she discovers the kotsuage ceremony, in which family members use chopsticks to separate the larger bones of their loved ones from the cremated ashes.

With dark humor and boundless curiosity, the author investigates the funerary history of the world and analyzes how the varied traditions, from Mexico's Día de los Muertos to the sky burial in the Himalayas, help us see our own customs from a new perspective.

Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, this book is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways in which people everywhere face the human challenge of mortality.