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.

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.

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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. […] READ MORE

Caitlin Doughty – From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin attempts to make these harder topics accessible and entertaining through humor, whether in her three books, speaking engagements around the world, or her YouTube series Ask a Mortician. If folks can get more in touch with their inevitable death and decay while they’re at …

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. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh ...

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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 cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead.

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. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity.