Feb 13, 2018
Caitlin Doughty is obsessed with death—in a good way. She’s turned her fascination with funerals and corpses into a successful career as a mortician, activist, YouTube personality, and bestselling author. Caitlin’s books are must-reads for anyone interested in what becomes of your body after you become not living anymore. Her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, is a funny and morbid memoir about her life as a crematory operator and mortician. In in her new book, From Here to Eternity, Caitlin plays the role of funeral tour guide, reporting on the bizarre and sometimes beautiful death rituals in countries such as Indonesia, Japan, and even in the U.S. In the podcast, we talk about why she became a mortician and a writer, how the American funeral system impersonalizes death, and how other cultures do death so much better than us.