Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the author of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? as well as the New York Times best-selling books Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity. She is the creator of the “Ask a Mortician” web series and founder of The Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, where she owns and runs a funeral home, Undertaking LA.
Awards
PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2015
Books by Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Paperback, 2015
"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Hardcover, 2017
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Paperback, 2018
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, ...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Hardcover, 2019
Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from childrenabout death, dead bodies and decomposition.