Caitlin Doughty
“Everything we do from building cathedrals to having children, the thrust of it is our fear of death.”
Caitlin Doughty is a licensed American mortician, author, blogger and YouTube personality known for advocating death acceptance and the reform of Western funeral industry practices. Co-owner of Undertaking LA, an alternative funeral service, she is the creator of the web series "Ask a Mortician", founder of The Order of the Good Death, and a leading spokesperson for the death positive movement. The author of the bestselling book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (2014), and the recent From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, her books have received widespread praise in The New York Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Time Magazine, Slate, Marie-Claire and on NPR.
“It is comforting to look at the most difficult and fearful thing you can imagine…your own death.”