We’ve come to the end of our quest to have our biggest questions about death answered. Mortician and founder of The Order Of The Good Death Caitlin Doughty has spoken to us about the bizarre process of extreme embalming, the torturous form of death known as scaphism, and her favorite death movies. In our final video…
In our ongoing quest to have our biggest questions about death answered, we asked mortician and founder of The Order Of The Good Death Caitlin Doughty about the most interesting, unconventional death traditions. She told us about a bizarre process called “extreme embalming” in which dead bodies are chemically…
The Order Of The Good Death is a nonprofit organization that aims to “bring discussions of mortality back into the public sphere,” whether that means helping people confront their own death fears, the death of loved ones, the afterlife (or lack thereof), grief, corpses, bodily decomposition, or all of the above. In…
In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month?
In our ongoing quest to have our biggest questions about death answered, we asked mortician and founder of The Order Of The Good Death Caitlin Doughty about helping families deal with the sight of a dead family member, particularly when that family member’s corpse is disfigured.
If we had to choose the way we died, we probably wouldn’t choose the medieval form of torture known as scaphism. In our ongoing quest to have our biggest questions about death answered, we asked mortician and founder of The Order Of The Good Death Caitlin Doughty about the worst way to die. In the video above, she…
Modern film and television is littered with images of dead bodies, but according to mortician Caitlin Doughty, not many shows or films depict the dead accurately. Doughty is the founder of The Order Of The Good Death, a group of funeral industry professionals, academics, and artists who aim to “bring discussions of…
Founded in 2011 by mortician Caitlin Doughty, The Order Of The Good Death aims to “bring discussions of mortality back into the public sphere,” whether that means helping people confront their own death fears, the death of loved ones, the afterlife (or lack thereof), grief, corpses, bodily decomposition, or all of the…
Plenty of young women with black bangs and a morbid sense of humor talk about becoming morticians, but Caitlin Doughty actually followed through. She then took things a step further by starting the web series Ask A Mortician, where she answers viewers’ questions about death and dying in a refreshingly honest,…
