Caitlin Doughty

Quick Facts

Full Name	Caitlin Doughty
Occupation	YouTube Star
Date Of Birth	Aug 19, 1984(1984-08-19)
Age	40
Birthplace	Hawaii
Country	United States
Birth City	Hawaii
Horoscope	Leo

Caitlin Doughty Biography

Caitlin Doughty is one of the most popular and richest YouTube Star who was born on August 19, 1984 in Hawaii, Hawaii, United States. Most famous for her ‘Ask a Mortician’ web series, Doughty is also known for her activism on behalf of funeral industry reform and the death acceptance movement. In 2014, she published a bestselling book titled Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory.

She and country singer John Conlee both became licensed morticians.

Caitlin Marie Doughty (born August 19, 1984) is an American mortician, author, blogger, and YouTube personality known for advocating death acceptance and the reform of Western funeral industry practices. She is the owner of Clarity Funerals and Cremation of Los Angeles, creator of the Web series “Ask a Mortician”, founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of three bestselling books, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory in 2014, and From Here to Eternity; Traveling the World to Find the Good Death in 2017, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death in 2019, both published by W.W. Norton and Company.

After graduation and moving to San Francisco in 2006, at age 22, she sought hands-on exposure to modern death practices in funeral homes, and after seeking employment for six months, was hired in the crematory of Pacific Interment (called Westwind Cremation & Burial in her book) despite her lack of any experience in the funeral industry. Pacific Interment could be called “the anti-Forest Lawn”, referring to what Doughty sees as the theme-park-like, kitschy corporate funeral behemoth that much of modern American funeral practice is modeled on. She picked up corpses from homes and hospitals in a van, prepared them for viewings, cremated them, and delivered the cremains to the families. Dealing with bureaucracy, such as acquiring death certificates or obtaining the release of a body from the coroner, occupied much of her work. Her boss and coworkers at Pacific Interment often tested her with very hands-on assignments, as on her first day at work she had to shave a corpse, and Doughty unflappably accepted any task, a willing jack-of-all-trades, eager to prove her mettle.

She was born and raised in Oahu, Hawaii, and she later lived in Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.

Caitlin Doughty Net Worth

Caitlin Doughty is one of the richest YouTube Star from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Caitlin Doughty 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in Medieval History and a concentration in Death and Culture, she began her career as a mortician at San Francisco’s Westwind Cremation and Burial.

Her keen interest in societal treatment of death is likely rooted in the fact that, as a young girl, she witnessed the sudden demise of a fellow child in an accident. She turned her early morbid fascination into a highly successful career; by 2015, she had more than 39,000 YouTube subscribers and had created an organization called The Order of the Good Death.

Doughty’s main inspiration for her advocacy work was the frequent absence of the decedents’ families in the process, which she attributed to the Western death anxiety and death phobia. She wanted to encourage death acceptance, and a return to such practices as memento mori, reminders of one’s own mortality, resulting in healthier grieving, mourning, and closure after the inevitable deaths of people around us, as well as starting a movement to broaden the funeral industry to offer more funeral options, such as natural burial, sky burial, alkaline hydrolysis (liquid cremation), or promession. Embalming began to dominate in the US after the Civil War. A century later, in the 1960s, Americans began to turn away from embalming and burial, as cremation became increasingly popular, so that today it is used in almost half of deaths in urban areas. Cremation is seen as a threat to the traditional funeral industry, but has a reputation as the more environmentally friendly option. This change can be traced to the lifting of the ban on cremation by Pope Paul VI in 1963, and to the publication in the same year of The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford, documenting abuses in the funeral industry and criticizing the excessive cost of funerals. Mitford’s book, and the movement it started, was one of Doughty’s inspirations, but Doughty feels that while Mitford had the right target, the profit-driven funeral industry, Mitford erred in sharing the industry’s, and the public’s, unhealthy desire to push out of sight and avoid thinking about the corpse itself. Doughty seeks to build on Mitford’s reforms but in a direction that embraces the reality of death and returns to funeral and mourning practices that include spending time with and having contact with the dead body itself.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Caitlin Doughty Dating?

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Doughty’s second book, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, illustrated by Landis Blair, chronicles her travels to see first hand death customs in Mexico, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, Bolivia, and, in the US, an open air funeral pyre and a body farm. Published in October, 2017, the book reached #7 on the LA Times Bestseller list and #9 on the New York Times list.

Facts & Trivia

Caitlin Ranked on the list of most popular YouTube Star. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Caitlin Doughty celebrates birthday on August 19 of every year.

Top Facts about Caitlin Doughty

1. Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, author, and YouTube personality.
2. She was born in 1984 in Hawaii.
3. Doughty founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death.
4. Her YouTube channel “Ask a Mortician” has over 1 million subscribers.
5. She authored books including “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “From Here to Eternity.”
6. Doughty advocates for natural burial practices and death positivity.
7. In 2019, she launched her own funeral home called Undertaking LA.
8. She has been featured on various media outlets such as NPR and The New York Times.
9. Doughty’s work aims to destigmatize death and encourage open conversations about it.
10. Her TED Talk “A Burial Practice That Nourishes the Planet” has over 2 million views.

Is Caitlin Doughty still a mortician?

Caitlin Doughty
Channel| Ask A Mortician
Years active| 2011–present
Genre| Death education
Subscribers| 1.86 million

Does Caitlin Doughty own a funeral home?

Her educational webseries “Ask a Mortician” has been viewed almost 200 million times and all three of her books Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? were New York Times bestsellers. She owns a funeral home, Clarity Funerals, in Los Angeles.

How old is Ask a Mortician?

Caitlin Doughty (born: August 19, 1984 (1984-08-19) [ age 38 ]), better known online as Ask a Mortician, is an American mortician, author, YouTuber, and death acceptance advocate who posts videos which openly explain what happens after a person dies, taking a humorous approach to the subject matter.

Where does Caitlin Doughty work?

Caitlin is a mortician who owns her own funeral home , Undertaking LA, where she values the importance of honoring the dead. She has created a space where families can come, regardless of their economic status, to properly mourn for their loved ones and be as involved with the process as they would like.

How do I become a mortician?

An associate’s degree in funeral service or mortuary science is the typical education requirement for funeral service workers. The syllabus commonly includes professional ethics, anatomy, microbiology, chemistry, pathology, embalming, restorative art, federal regulations, and mortuary law.