I feel like a weird person for having enjoyed this so immensely, but perhaps my weird feelings are exactly why this book exists. Caitlin Doughty gives different examples of burial and end of life practices from countries across the globe which illustrate how different cultures think of and treat death, which is often quite different from the sterile euphemism of the western death industry. Her writing will have you experiencing a full range of emotions as she tells stories of various individuals and their experience with death in the context of their own cultural history and practice.