From Here To Eternity: Traveling The World To Find The Good Death

"In From Here To Eternity, mortician Caitlin Doughty travels the word to learn how other cultures care for their dead. She meets women in Bolivia who collect ñatitas, wish-granting human skulls. And she visits a community in Indonesia where the dead are mummified and often kept in the home for years at a time. These rituals might shock us, but they are all deeply human. Doughty writes bluntly about open-air cremations, natural burials and body composting, bringing a little more clarity and a little less mystery to the question, “What happens to us after we die?” (In case you were wondering: She would choose to be eaten by animals.)"