IAN: Open Thread and Ask a Mortician

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Sunday July 03, 2022 · 9:55 PM PDT

2022/07/03 · 21:55

You might think they’d be morbid, and there is a campy-ghoulish element to them, but the tales Caitlyn Doughty tells are generally quite compelling, and scientific to boot.

Here, she debunks the myths around the Columbine mass shooting [13:41]:

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From her website:

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, advocate, and bête noire of the traditional funeral industry. In 2011 she founded the funeral reform collective The Order of the Good Death, which has spawned the death positive movement. Her educational webseries "Ask a Mortician" has been viewed almost 200 million times and all three of her books Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? were New York Times bestsellers. She owns a funeral home, Clarity Funerals, in Los Angeles.

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“Cadaver Crimes: Cantrell Funeral Home” [10:17] is a doozy. If you’re easily triggered, don’t watch this one. But it’s the true story of an unethical funeral director.