Americans are notoriously uncomfortable when it comes to talking about death and being around the dead, but not every culture treats it as something to avoid. Mortician Caitlin Doughty takes us from India to Thailand to explore how other societies confront mortality more openly than we often do.
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- Caitlin Doughty, mortician, author of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death.
Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the author of the book, “Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?” Her life’s work may sound unsettling to some, but she’s spent years trying to make conversations around death more approachable.
After college, Doughty brought this passion to her first job as a crematory operator.
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