Caitlin Doughty

Caitlin Doughty is a licensed mortician, author and founder of The Order of the Good Death, a collective of funeral professionals, academics and artists working to prepare a death-phobic culture for its own mortality. She is the founder of the natural burial-focused funeral home Undertaking LA.

She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, which has introduced millions of viewers to the realities of death care, and the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Her advocacy focuses on funeral industry reform, price transparency and expanding the legal options families have to care for their own dead.