Caitlin Doughty Quotes

Caitlin Doughty

Profession : Activist

Birth : August 19, 1984

The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?

Caitlin Doughty

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

Caitlin Doughty

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Caitlin Doughty

All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

Caitlin Doughty

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

Caitlin Doughty

The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.

Caitlin Doughty