Caitlin Doughty, "From Here To Eternity"

Doughty’s memoir, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, was a funny and irresistible account of her experiences working in a crematorium. The job was a life-changer: Doughty now runs a nonprofit funeral home in Los Angeles and hosts the web series “Ask a Mortician.” Her second book is a fascinating catalog of funeral rituals and burial practices from around the world. Visiting Indonesia, Doughty reports on a family that dresses and cleans their grandfather’s mummified body-two years after the man’s death. In Bolivia, she encounters natitas, skulls that can grant wishes. Closer to home, she investigates green burials. Death is universal, but the ways of understanding it are myriad and thought-provoking.
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Produced by Tom Warren

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This woman is a gift and a treasure to the world.

[@emmajanewatts4388]

Nicole R hi, are you on her KZbin channel, it’s great x

[@martinamartin8852]

I really hope her books are available as audio books with her narration.

[@bart2546]

“The Middle Ages were maaaagic” - favorite thing she says in other KZbin videos.

[@elizabetha3936]

A big thank you to the bookstore who does this KZbin channel I really enjoyed this

[@mountainmanws]

"Sell it back to the family as a product...." Sort of interesting statement of the Funeral Industry. I'm on the slippery slope on my way out. I've talked with my son on my final good-bye. We are going to put the FUN back into Funerial.

[@dianapiesak5766]

Caitlin is an such amazing and inspirational woman!

[@lyndawood7937]

Caitlin is my fav. She is my idol and an inspiration to us all.

[@tonytony1467]

Great speaker, she is a gift

[@yourspookygay]

instead of her show, did Netflix make Dark Tourist instead????

[@BlueMangoHorse]

Ooooh! I would love a medieval death documentary from you! maybe a mini-series with like an episode on babies and children as well as death during pregnancy and labor, maybe one on soldiers and the bodies form war during that period I don't know I think it would be cool!!

[@maryhildreth754]

BlueMangoHorse I'd so watch that!

[@looshkin66]

She's done all that.......she has a KZbin channel of her own.

[@nunpho]

Do you watch her KZbin channel? She talks about all of that but yeah I'd love to see her do documentaries!

[@shaylasimpson5802]

My mom just ordered me a signed autograph of this book and I am so excited I hope it gets here before Christmas!

[@heidischumacher617]

Weird Europe: A Guide to Bizarre, Macabre, and Just Plain Weird Sights.

[@mercedes4328]

Caitlin Doughty, you are AMAZING!!!

[@zsaqiacamphor9483]

i am happy that there is a green memorial ground in near chicago that allow markers and planting of shrubbery.

[@gordon4385]

Homegrown Vegan Where? I'd like to see it.

[@erincarr9411]

The sky burrial is my favorite too! I want one.

[@terriehumphries6028]

You read beautifully and this is very different from our culture but interesting. I will probably buy the book.

[@nunpho]

Her first book is great too and her KZbin channel too.

[@sandirodriguez8000]

Watching in 2018

[@suzi7385]

Loved this!

[@JCResDoc94]

23:10 selfies & acceptance of the body, personal experience of grief & modernization w/technology (boy howdy)

[@heidischumacher617]

Wait..what was the book called? Weird Europe or Macabre Europe? I thought you called it something different in another talk.

[@blueticecho5690]

How about doing something with Gomez Adamms……...

[@marilynharrison3829]

I Love watching you speak but, you looked so nervous up there. As for your videos, I just love to watch them . My question is is it against the law to keep your cremation and not have to barry them, in them in the ground ?

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I Loved tihis vídeo about book very good

[@TheHighPriestessStudio]

I really enjoyed this however was taken aback at what at first glance I thought the sign above Caitlin to be 'Spirits' actually was 'Sports' 😄 well talking for that length of time.. Yeah, I guess you could call it a sport 🤔😄