Ask a Mortician's Caitlin Doughty nerds out about death

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Caitlin Doughty is host of the popular YouTube series Ask a Mortician and author of the new memoir Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons From the Crematory. We talk about the history and present of how cultures handle death. Plus a nerd confession that includes a Gollum impression.

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0:13.6	To all the people who are saying to you
0:19.0	it's like really unhealthy and like a little messed up to be interested in that.
0:25.0	We say nope, no, wrong, lie.
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0:33.0	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:37.0	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:38.0	And from W.BeeZ in Chicago, this is nerdette.
0:41.0	Coming up, our favorite mortician Caitlin Dowdy is here to nerd out about death,
0:45.0	and I promise it won't be depressing.
0:47.0	Come back bright-eyed and bushy-tailed each time,
0:50.0	believing that it's important.
0:51.0	So your favorite mortician isn't morticia, huh?
0:54.0	It used to be, and then I met Caitlin.
0:55.0	Fair enough.
0:56.0	All that plus your nerd confessions.
0:58.0	Right here on Nurdett.
1:07.0	Caitlin-Dowdy is a Los Angeles-based mortician. And I don't know about you Tricia but when I come across someone who is in her early 30s and is a mortician I kind of assume that maybe it was her family trade and that's why she ended up doing this seemingly random thing.
1:24.3	But for Caitlin Dowdy, that is definitely not the case.
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