Caitlin Doughty

Caitlin Doughty is a writer and death acceptance advocate. She started working in the funeral industry as a crematory operator at age 23, a job described in her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Since then she founded the nonprofit Order of the Good Death, started the Ask a Mortician Youtube series, and introduced the movement of death awareness and death positivity in the Western world. She owns a family-centered funeral home in Southern California. Her other New York Times bestsellers are From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?