Episode 4: Caitlin Doughty and the Death Positive Movement

Death, et seq.

I am so happy to have Caitlin Doughty as my guest on Episode 4. Caitlin is a licensed funeral director and the owner of Undertaking LA, a funeral home in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of Death Salon and the founder of The Order of the Good Death. She is the host of Ask a Mortician, which is a highly entertaining series of videos on YouTube (my favorite is the one on Viking burials).

Caitlin is also the author of TWO best-selling books – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, in which she discusses her experience working in a crematory, and From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which was published last year.

In this episode of Death, et seq., Caitlin discusses what the death positive movement IS. In this blog post, she explains what the death positive movement IS NOT.

Discussion topics:

⇒ Defining "death positivism"

⇒ What kind of pushback Caitlin receives, and what parts of her message resonate broadly

⇒ How social justice is an integral part of the death positive movement

⇒ Caitlin's relationship with the funeral industry

⇒ What each of us can do to be more death positive on a daily basis

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