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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

Topics: American Bears Bodies Creatures Current Customs Cute Dance Death Desert Eiffel Tower Elephants Harsh Helping Industry Like Little Look Majestic Markets Middle Natural Our Outfits Tower Training

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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.

~Caitlin Doughty

Topics: Accepting Eating Good Like May Mortality Own Vegetables Want You Your

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In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.

~Caitlin Doughty

Topics: America Body Built Burial Denial Ground Layers Many Means Over Over It Settle Vault

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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.

~Caitlin Doughty

Topics: Death Definition Healthy Mean Morbid Perfectly Preoccupation Unfortunately Unhealthy Which Word

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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

Topics: Atoms Back Biologically Body Die Here Me Once Out Out Here Ready Shoot Universe Wants You

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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

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Topics: Am Necessarily Need Tells Who You I Am

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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

~Caitlin Doughty

Topics: About Beautiful Body Care Causes Death Died Family Natural Natural State State Taking Think Very You

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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

Topics: Become Comfortable Death Get Happens Hard How Know Me Now Out Very Why Worked Works

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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

Topics: About Choosing Day Death Escape Every Every Day Ignore Makes More Most Only Scary Think I Think

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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

~Caitlin Doughty

Topics: Around Death End Going Ignore Just Oblivious Our Things Up Why

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: August 19th, 1984

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