318: Caitlin Doughty

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate the holidays with Caitlin Doughty, author, mortician, and founder of The Order Of The Good Death.

Caitlin is part of the "death positivity" movement. And her light hearted and compassionate approach to dealing with death is quite inspirational.

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0:00.0	This episode of the DTFH has been supported by Squarespace.com.
0:05.9	Head over to squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch, use
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0:15.4	And now a stop drinking crow's milk Christmas special.
0:20.5	Here to help us celebrate the holiday season is author, blogger, podcaster and all around
0:27.7	the amazing mortician, Caitlin Doty.
0:31.3	But first, some music and some wisdom from America's most beloved hobo singer, the great
0:41.7	clown tramp himself, the wonderful folk singer and truly, one of my favorite musicians of
0:48.5	all time, Fergus Blander's.
0:50.9	Oh, there.
0:57.9	It's me, Fergus Blander's Duncan, I asked me to come over here and do a little Christmas
1:08.3	special for his Duncan, Truss or whatever the fuck it is.
1:12.6	Family, it's called the second of the weekend.
1:17.2	The visionism said monstization of something to be up in the key, you know, Kevin Laska,
1:25.6	with a fire burning the black cats and running around, they could rub it and pet and some
1:32.7	juniper that you could burn so we could make content with some entities.
1:37.3	But okay, okay, who am I to judge?
1:40.8	Christmas is the time of the year where the numb, dumb and full of come gather around
1:48.3	there and pretend to be happy.
1:50.8	And many of us out there, who are not so completely alone with numbers in our phone,
1:58.4	they don't work anymore because whoever we want to call this long gone dead last, they
2:06.1	shut us.
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