Name: This Party's Dead
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
ISBN: 9781783529544

Erica Buist

Journalist Erica Buist travels to seven death festivals around the world (Nepal, Madagascar, Indonesia, Sicily, Japan, Mexico and New Orleans) in search of better attitudes towards death

Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals

This Party's Dead

Suzanne

It is fascinating how differently we deal with death in different countries and cultures.
This is a non fiction book following Erica Buist to seven death festivals around the world (Nepal, Madagascar, Indonesia, Sicily, Japan, Mexico and New Orleans).
I tried to leave my own notion behind of what I consider "normal" around dying and burying while reading this.
This is one of the few books where I feel she could've written even more about the different places she visited. It was so interesting to learn how people deal with dying and death and the amount of love that still goes around. I am considering implementing some of the ideas for my deceased family members (celebrating, using flowers, baking sweets.
Such a beautiful and personal journey and full of interesting facts. Highly recommend it.

This Party's Dead Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals

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