Caitlin Doughty is a licensed mortician and writer living in Los Angeles. She is the founder of The Order of the Good Death and the host of the “Ask a Mortician” webseries. W. W. Norton will ...

Caitlin Doughty begins this funny, smart, clear-eyed and compassionate book about death with an account of how the exotic dancer-turned-spy Mata Hari chose to stand unbound and unblindfolded before a ...