Caitlin Doughty

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Caitlin is a licensed mortician in California. She founded the Order of the Good Death in 2011 with the goal of bringing the realistic discussion of death back into popular culture. Caitlin’s web series “Ask a Mortician” and the Order website have led to features on National Public Radio, BBC, the Huffington Post, Vice, the LA Times, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Salon. She also co-founded the public engagement series Death Salon.

Caitlin is the author of three bestselling books: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory; From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death; and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death.