Death Denial w/ Caitlin Doughty

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Caitlin Doughty (mortician, death positive activist, and author of "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies." They talk about the denial of death in modern western culture, ways to improve mortality salience, and of course, whether or not your cat will actually eat your eyeballs when you die.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, September 28th, 2020 and I'm the
0:20.0	host of the show Kara Santa Maria. We have a great one for you this week, but before we dive in,
0:24.4	I want to thank those of you who continue to make TalkNurdy possible week after week.
0:29.5	Remember, TalkNurdy is 100% free to download. And that's because of the support from listeners just like you.
0:34.7	So if you want to pledge your support,
0:36.4	visit Patreon.com slash TalkNurdy
0:39.9	like these amazing people did,
0:41.9	including Mary Niva, Charles Payet,
0:44.9	Christopher Pitts, David J. E. Smith,
0:47.5	Dudas Infinitas, June Separa, Pasqualee,
0:52.0	and who else we got here Ulrika Hagman Brian Holden Michael Goshé
0:59.4	And yeah lots more guys lots more But those are the top tier folks,
1:03.8	and I always want to give them a nice call out
1:06.2	at the beginning of the show.
1:08.1	Okay, I'm super excited about this week's episode
1:10.1	because we have a returning guest.
1:11.6	One of my favorite guests.
1:12.6	Her name is Caitlin Doherty, she's a mortician and an activist.
1:16.9	In 2011, she founded the Order of the Good Death,
1:19.7	which is a death acceptance collective. She has an amazing YouTube series called
1:25.4	Ask a Mortician. She owns her own kind of alternative funeral home,
1:30.3	clarity funerals here in LA and she has written a few amazing books about death.
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