Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, writer, and advocate for funeral industry reform. In 2011 she founded the non-profit The Order of the Good Death, which spawned the death positive movement and is working to legalize human composting and aquamation in all fifty states. Her educational documentaries as "Ask a Mortician" have been viewed over 250 million times and all three of her books– Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?– were New York Times bestsellers. She founded a Los Angeles funeral home, Clarity Funerals, and currently lives in upstate New York.
"A relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld, and the weirder things get, the happier she seems..."
The New York Times
"Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential."
The Guardian
"Chronicles death practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief."
The New Yorker
BOOKS
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. […]
From Here to Eternity
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. […]
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She […]
BOOKS
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. […]
From Here to Eternity
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. […]
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She […]
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