From Mortality to Immortality - Caitlin Doughty

“Ever since man stepped on the earth and faced what no other being has faced—the realization that he would one day be a lifeless corpse—he has been trying to figure out the best way to deal with the corpses he will one day be. In this book, Caitlin Doughty—undertaker and cremation worker—troubles the country. It tells us the latest and first findings of humans in the field of A

To deal with corpses, and describes human motives in dealing with corpses, which varied from mere honor to communicating with the dead and integrating with the ecosystem to which we belong. This book is a unique blend of art travels in search of wonders, depressing biographies, gripping anecdotes, unique information, and cognitive shock therapy for everyone who is used to one way of dealing with dead bodies, and a commitment to avoid death and the dead and talking about them. In this book, you will learn how some women scientists invented an “eco-friendly” method of burial, the difficulties of traditional cremation, how Tibetans bury their dead in the sky, and why the vultures refrained from eating the corpses of Zoroaster's followers in the Tower of Silence.

Ah, did you know that zombies really exist?

Dottie is an authoritative guide to the gruesome and wondrous world of death. Laughing with her will not stop.

- Washington Post

"A love of life mixed with Dotty's sense of humor will make you reconsider the way your culture treats the dead."

San Francisco Chronicle