Caitlin Doughty: From Here to Eternity

Fascinated by our cultural terror of dead bodies, mortician and best-selling author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Caitlin Doughty set out with her characteristic curiosity and razor sharp wit to discover how others care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather’s mummified body. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls) and Japanese mourners who use chopsticks to pluck bones from their loved ones' cremation ashes. Doughty is joined by illustrator and fellow Order of the Good Death member Landis Blair for a conversation on what it means to treat the dead with “dignity.”