Here, they literally put wood under a body and light it on fire. The book begins with a small town in the USA where they have open air cremations. In fact, one of the few practices that comes off truly bad in this book is the one we are likely to be most familiar with, not because it is wrong but because its focus has largely become about companies making money selling coffins rather than about helping people through a difficult time. This is important for the context of the book because while it discusses different ways to deal with bodies, it does so without judgment explaining them, but not saying whether they are right or wrong.
But that doesn’t mean it would be for someone who actually believes in it. More than that, if you did some things it would be disrespectful because you don’t believe in that. That people most often find rituals around death that aren’t their own strange, disrespectful and even barbaric. This book starts with an important point. And more than that, it’s about death rituals that may seem strange, like keeping a dead relative in your house for years. This is mostly because it’s about death rituals rather than death itself. But while “From Here to Eternity” isn’t exactly what I’d consider a light book, but for a book written almost entirely about death, it’s about as much fun as you’re likely to find. When I think of reading something for fun to relieve stress, my mind rarely jumps to talking about death.
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