You might be more interested in her book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death. That's less about her own experiences and more about contrasting a bunch of different traditions around the globe, digging into the effects of various approaches on the mourners, the environment, etc. It solidly convinced me that not only do I not want to be embalmed and interred in a stupidly overpriced casket, I don't want to be cremated, either; I have told my husband that my preference is for natural/green burial, or honestly, composting if the logistics of that have been solidly cracked by then (it turns out to be more complicated than it might appear at first glance).
I really enjoyed From Here to Eternity -- which I listened to in audiobook, with Doughty narrating -- but then, it was tailor-made to my anthropological inclinations.
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Date: 2023-02-22 09:03 pm (UTC)I really enjoyed From Here to Eternity -- which I listened to in audiobook, with Doughty narrating -- but then, it was tailor-made to my anthropological inclinations.