Caitlin Doughty

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Caitlin Doughty (born August 19, 1984 in Oahu , Hawaii , USA ) is an American undertaker , author , blogger and YouTuberin .

Life

Doughty grew up in Honolulu . She studied Medieval Studies at the University of Chicago , her thesis dealt with the witch trials in the early modern period .

In 2006, Doughty went to San Francisco , California, and after a six-month search, found a job in a privately operated crematorium . After working there for a year, she attended an advanced training program at a college for funeral workers . As a result, from 2011 she became involved in the organization The Order of the Good Death , which she founded, whose goal is to change the relationship of Western societies to death. The aims of the association include reducing the fear of dying and suppressing the fact of death. Furthermore, the order propagates options such as cremation, burial at sea, etc. Furthermore, Doughty suggests that practices such as the wake and other mourning ceremonies should be cultivated again.

In 2011, Doughty began the Ask a Mortician series on YouTube, which has been very successful ever since. In 2014 her first book on the subject of dying and burial was published with the title Smoke Gets in Your Eyes , which was also published in German in 2016.

In 2015 she opened her own funeral home, initially under the name Undertaking LA , today she runs one in Hollywood ( Los Angeles ) together with Jeff Jorgenson under the name Clarity Funeraly & Cremation , which she runs as Managing Director.

Publications

  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory . WW Norton & Co., New York City 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-24023-8 .
  • From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death . WW Norton & Co., New York City 2017, ISBN 978-0393249897 .
    • German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann: Where the dead dance: How people die and mourn around the world . Malik Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3890295060 .
  • Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs ?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death . WW Norton & Co., New York City 2019, ISBN 978-0393652703 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carmen Eller: Caitlin Doughty: Bone Dust Behind the Ears. In: zeit.de. May 10, 2016, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Christiane Lutz: Sense and nonsense: Your friend, death. In: sueddeutsche.de. April 22, 2016, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Let's always live together. In: FAZ . February 26, 2016, p. 10.
  4. ^ Nadja Schlueter: Revolutionary of the cemeteries. In: Jetzt.de. February 22, 2016, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Fritz Habekuss: Caitlin Doughty: Bodies can glow so red. In: zeit.de. May 19, 2016, accessed January 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Doughty, Caitlin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American undertaker, writer, blogger, and YouTube actor
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Oahu , Hawaii , USA