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Ask a Mortician: Caitlin Doughty on the Death Industry's Dirty Secrets
Sep 8, 2014
30:11
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Point of Inquiry welcomes Caitlin Doughty, creator of the cult classic web series
Ask A Mortician
, which gives unvarnished answers to questions about dead bodies and the death industry. Caitlin has tackled topics ranging from "
What to say to a grieving person?
" to "
How could my titanium hip implant end up as part of a road sign in the Midwest?
" Caitlin is the author of the new book
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory
, the story of her stint as a crematory operator in Los Angeles. She went on to become a licensed mortician to launch a one-woman crusade to change our culture's attitudes about death.