Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty - a 20-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre - took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. With an original voice that...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. W...

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity".  Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for thei...

From Here to Eternity

As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity, she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears.  In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress...

From her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, 23-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about, she started to wonder about the live...

Smoke Gets in your Eyes

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poo when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral?   In the traditio...

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