Caitlin Doughty

Caitlin Doughty (USA) is a Los Angeles-based mortician, death theorist and the founder of the website The Order of the Good Death, which has the goal of bringing the realistic discussion of death back into popular culture. Doughty’s web series Ask a Mortician and her website have led to features on National Public Radio, BBC, the Huffington Post, Vice, the LA Times and Forbes. Currently, she works as a licensed funeral director/mortician and is in the process of opening her own alternative funeral service, Undertaking LA. At Wordfest, she presents her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory.