Summary: As a death professional and star of the cult hit YouTube series, Ask a Mortician Caitlin Doughty is a skilled practitioner in flouting taboos. Her New York Times bestselling memoir Smoke Gets In Your Eyes chronicles her fixation with mortality and the highs and lows of working at a crematorium. It’s a coming-of-age story, with a dash of eventual oblivion thrown in. Caitlin speaks to Linda Jaivin about turning a morbid curiosity into her life’s work, and why it’s so important to face fear with frankness.
