Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 6:34 a.m.

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, activist, author, and founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, and the webseries “Ask a Mortician,” which has led to features on NPR, BBC, The New Yorker, Vice, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes.

She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory. Her new book is From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.

Caitlin was in the Northwest to speak at The Summit on Pike, presented by Town Hall Seattle. Follow her on Twitter @TheGoodDeath.