Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author and mortician Caitlin Doughty speaks at the Relics Events Center in Springfield, MO on November 5, 2021. Working to break ...

Caitlin Doughty remembers her first encounter with death. "That thud — that noise of the girl's body hitting laminate — would play over and over again in my mind, dull thud after dull thud," she ...

A woman was babysitting her neighbor’s 3-year-old daughter. The girl took her clothes off and started touching herself. Should the caller say something to the parents? Is this behavior a red flag for ...

And now for another episode of my favorite webshow, Ask a Mortician, where Caitlin addresses how to deal with pet death and how to turn your corpse into a tree. Enjoy!

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For the past several years, Caitlin Doughty’s delightful Ask a Mortician YouTube series has addressed everything from viking funerals to modern embalming practices to the corpse flower (AKA ...

Happy Halloween! Our favorite mortician, Caitlin Doughty, would like to talk to you about the morbid origins of the holiday. As you munch on peanut butter cups, consider death, Samhain and bonfires.

Working to break down taboos about death, mortician and bestselling author Caitlin Doughty visited Springfield Thursday in one of her first public events since the pandemic. Part of the ...

Talking about death isn't easy, but mortician Caitlin Doughty is trying to reform how we think about the deaths of loved ones — and prepare for our own. "My philosophy is honesty," Doughty tells Fresh ...