Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Death | Town Hall Seattle 

Oh man I would love to be friends with Caitlin, she's so funny and rad

re:at 47 minutes. I was given Caitlin's book as a gift to read when I was stuck in hospital after a serious suicide attempt.I know it raised a few2 eyebrows. But it was amazingly entertaining and as she says,it in no way has influenced my notions of suicide. Also,as a non-binary person,I applaud her efforts to express absolute respect for people of all genders,sexuality,races etc. Every human being deserves that amount of respect in death irrespective of their status.

The whales question killed me. Enough said.

Caitlin's answers in the Q&A are so elegant

Caitlyn...the fact that you mentioned afi in this has officially made us best friends...I knew I was binge watching 5 years of your videos for a reason.

Love her and her videos! The humor and intelligence she has is unmatched!

You are my death hero!!!! I dont have to worry about the older generation they are all gone. I'm almost 61 and since I was 5 and my grandfather died I have been panicked by death. Since watching every single one of your videos I've now became comfortable with death. I panic at being sealed in a box under six feet of dirt and concrete or being burned nature burial with a tree growing out of my remains have really fixed all that. I've even talked to my kids and let this be known. They are good with that.

I love Ms. Doughy's sense of humor. So dark yet cheery at the same time. *BIG FAN*

I would do literally anything for Caitlin Doughty. 💞💞💞

I was never interested in death, but she got me hooked with the historic videos and passionate about the environmental impacts of funerals....Caitlyn is so informative, entertaining, funny and serious at the same time 😊❤️

The "and I chose Satan" was perfect!🤣

Ugh lady in the Brown shirt.... uncool. I had to fast forward and I NEVER fast forward Caitlin. She is my everything!

I love how honest and open she is!

She is one of my favorite people

Love you Caitlin ❤️ so true

Caitlin is one of the most intelligent people out there, also so funny

I clicked on one of her videos and been hooked ever sense .

I wanna hug Caitlin! So annoying that I live in the UK because I’d love to hear her speak 🥰

Yas! Deathling up here

I was the person who found Caitlin’s videos in the height of a deep depression and I was never able to express why they helped me so much but she put it into words. Around the 48 minute mark.

Thank you for removing the fear of death from my mind. You are my hero.

Literally I am slowly accepting that I will die. I didn’t realize that I was scared of dying. I didn’t realize that I needed to talk about death. And at some point I will talk with my parents about it. As well as have all three of us fill out Advance Directives for our state of Montana. I NEED this, I KNOW it will relieve stresses, because it already has.

Caitlin keeps it real, she has helped me immensely over the last few years navigating the industry of death. Love her✌️

Yup she’s amazing 👍🏼👍🏼💜❤️💜❤️💜

I freakin love Caitlin!!!! Cant wait to order your other books. I have From here to eternity and it was great!!

Whoa, Caitlin, I'm currently 'binge watching' your lectures and I can't break the habit, but 'boy' you get better every time so I HAVE to watch. You probably can't or won't answer one question I'd love to know if you've heard of 'Gunther Von Hagens' and his 'plastination' projects. I am fascinated by his work as it's educational and artistic and I find him very cool. I'd love to know your thoughts on this man and his exhibitions. Thanks xxx

Caitlin is over 6 feet tall?! Jealous! (being short sucks sometimes.)

You are my favorite person! I am so glad I found your website. Thank you for sharing your experience, knowledge and thoughts about the inevitable.

You are absolutely amazing Caitlyn! Please never stop you are very soothing and comforting to watch and learn from! I love love LOVE you and your work! #keepitup #urock #thanksforeverything #deathling

Just started to watch your videos this week, have a lot to watch. First video I saw was on JFK. If you were a teacher, your class would be full and nobody would skip the class. One class mate was in the school band and his family owned a funeral home. ❤

I wrote a similar paper in catholic school about Lucifer but I got two weeks of lunch detention to rewrite my essay "The right way" because my thesis was about how Lucifer wasn't actually the bad guy he's presented as.... I failed because I refused to rewrite it and I do not regret it.

FELLOW WHALE-PHOBIC DEALTHLING HERE!!!!🙌 #TEAMCAITLIN ♥️

Bless you Ms Caitlin

Wow ... imagine being in a crowd and seeing events and getting a hug and picture from The Caitlin Doughty.... I hope these things aren’t gone forever and I get the chance to experience an Ask a Mortician speaking engagement in my life 😭 she’s so cool

30:30 Thank you, Caitlin.

This book just came in the mail..a gift from my son as he got me the hard copy of it. Thank-You Caitlin.

You gotta love a kid they're so blunt and open

I educate myself on death and the death industry because I have issues with suicide. Im a survivor. I've been obsessed with dying since my Mom abruptly died in front of me when i was 13. (sudden on-set arrhythmia, her heart randomly stopped... she wasn't sick. Her biopsy came back with no cause of death) I have always wanted to be with her, I have always felt there was nothing here for me without her. I think those feelings stemmed from her body being poorly treated after she died. Even at 13 looking at her bloated and waxy looking body... I knew it wasn't right. It haunted me, still does. I could tell (even knowing nothing at that age of how bodys are prepared) that her mouth had been sewn shut. They kept her away from me before they drained her. They took her body away so swiftly a if she was contagious. I wasnt ready to part with her body yet. I was in need of sitting with her and holding her hand. To truly come to terms that she was gone. I was not scared of my mothers lifeless body. It was the body that created me. It was the shell of the woman who kissed me goodnight and took me to school everyday. She died in our living room, I just wanted to sit with her for a while. Educating myself in death has helped me understand my death doesnt have to be that way. I dont have to be a scary bloated wax figurine. I don't need to be swiftly taken away from my loved ones. Someone can hold my hand after I'm gone. Which I would want. It also has just helped me build a healthy relationship with death in general. I am still obsessed with the idea of dying, but in a healthy way... not in a going to take my own life way. Im no longer in a rush. Shout out to Caitlin for helping o many of us.

I love how you know that "people aren't good nutrition". Hurrah for Caitlin!

Such an interesting video

I love caitlin alot, shes gorgeous, a genius, smart as a whip, has the funniest sense of humor. She must make a ghoul, wacko, scary movie, with spirits, all her crazy horror fantasies, goth fetish...it would be greater than the munsters and the adams family. I love you caitlin. my favorite ghoulfriend.

Hi Caitlin , My best friend from 1966 to current day worked as night attendant at a funeral home. Since he lived there full time we would hang out there in his living quarters. The lady whose husband founded the funeral homes lived on the upper floors and liked having us around as built in security. We were very respectful as befits the purpose of the Establishment. We had several Halloween parties there and made sure to tell our friends that the work rooms and viewing areas were strictly no go zones and if they violated the rule they would not be allowed back. Also, there was an old timey radio show called “The life of Riley” would sometimes have an undertaker named Digger O’Dell. The gallows humor is well worth the time to give it a listen. Looking forward to seeing more of your vids

I'm doing Religious Studies in University and currently attend a class named Religion and Death. Read a text about this exact same arab who chronicalled the Rus' funeral customs. I'm thinking about making the death theme of sudies my career.

Everyone go and subscribe to her RU-vid channel. She is very funny of course, but she has very interesting topics! I've been subscribed for a couple years now ( I just found this video recently ) I just love her!

On the topic of talking to friends about death and suicide, I had a very good friend some years ago, and we'll call him KD. We lived together; him, me and my husband at the time. However, my husband was gone a lot, so me and KD ended up spending many nights out on the back deck, contemplating life and death and everything in between. We were both raised Southern Baptist and had similar family histories, so we had many things in common. One night, he asked me "What would you do if you found out that you had stage IV brain cancer and you maybe had a couple of months to live?" I said, "Well, I wouldn't want to put my family and friends through that all of that, because that's a death sentence, so I would leave everything and everyone and check off as many things as I could on my bucket list, probably go to Disney World one more time; then I would find the tallest tree on the prettiest mountain I could find, and I would hang myself." Around that time, bad things happened between me and my second husband, and we weren't together anymore (not because of KD, before your mind starts spinning...we were just very good friends, and I still miss him so much), so I moved and didn't hear from anyone for a couple of months...but then KD went missing. Everyone was looking for him. He disconnected from the internet, disconnected his phone, and God, I hope he went to Disney. They found him a few months later, hanging from a tree on the TN/NC border in the mountains (beautiful, btw...if you go through there, take I-40 through TN and NC...it's breathtaking), but it was a few months before he was found by some hunters. They did an autopsy and found that he had stage IV brain cancer, stage IV meaning it had invaded his entire body, but it had originated in his brain and apparently there were tumors everywhere. I would have never known it. He seemed fine to me; we just liked to talk and drink (and smoke left-handed cigarettes, hee-hee) out on the back deck. He had been asking me a question about something he already knew was happening to him, and I said I would ultimately kill myself. I have never been able to forgive myself for that. I feel I gave horrible advice to someone who really needed to be held and loved and hugged until his last day. How does a person get over that?

Love the name of the coffee shop

That's okay! I will forgive your preference for the West Coast. At least, you visited Mass. I am thinking at least 2 other places east of Texas

Yeah you can tell a woman has had some kind of association/interest with the death industry by the bangs XD (talking about myself too 😅)

A history geek after my own twisted heart

I've been looking for her latest book in a physical bookstore, but try finding one of those still left in regional NSW Aust. I managed to find From Here to Eternity for sale at Bookface Port Macquarie of all places but they never got her latest one in stock.

I've been talking to my best friends about my death and what to do at that time

mc: please join me in welcoming Caitlin... (looks down at his own outfit) ..dowdy...

Throwing ashes at Whales would be HIGHLY ILLEGAL as, there are laws about getting to close to marine wildlife, most laws state 100 metres.

If I had been more aware of my mortality when I was young.. I believe I wouldn't have made so many mistakes, or made so many of the negative choices I made. When your young you feel like adulthood, old age.... is soooooooo far away.. like you can put off responsibilities for awhile and get back to later.. like school, starting a career, ect... but that while tends to become a wee bit longer than awhile... then becomes a habit... and so many find themselves in the adulthood and realize they never got around to their desires and wasted their life.. bc they thought they had forever.

WHEN OUR TIME COMES TO GET PAN FRIED OR PICKELED AND PLANTED,WANT IT BE NEAT TO HAVE A KOOL GUY OR GAL LIKE CAITLIN TO SEND US ON OUR WAY OUT,WHEN OUR BATTERY FINALLY RUNS DOWN AND THEY SEND US ON OUR WAY TO ROCK CITY.

And oh yeh its easy to build a projektile launcher to launch ashes for the whales. Tell ya that much, being an islander myself

Ok question, I am fine with my cat eating me, am I ok? ~sinceirely a cat owner

Lol 😂 gangster acid

I allways wanted to be eaten by crocodiles too, but jeah i dont want to incriminate my loved ones xD

TO THE FANS OF CAITLIN,A GOOD QUESTION TO ASK HER- HAVE YOU EVER HAD WHAT YOU CONSIDER A PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE? SEEN A GHOST OR WHATEVER?-(THEY DO EXIST)-WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THEM, AND WHY, OR IF, THEY MAY BE PRESENT; AT TIMES.....YOU WOULD HAVE A UNIQUE PRESPECTIVE,ON THIS CONSIDERING YOUR LIFE'S CALLING.

Good heawens dearling.. You ever happen to go visiting finland? If so do lemmie know beforehand. Havent had much connection with folk like you . and having a glass a of granddad Anyhoo should you end up here drop me a signal

I, too, want to be eaten by birds ❤️ I learned at one point that you could not specify being placed on a body farm if you donate your own cadaver for scientific study. Any idea if this is still the case?

How about putting a photoshopped portrait of yourself on that books cover?

Somebody tell the whale lady to use a drone to drop the ashes on some whales.

you mean old uncle Digger O'Del the friendly undertaker well maybe not to friendly

I don't know how she finds time to do all she does .. Does she have a family ???

Actually will my car eat my eyeballs os just more universal and far reaching across all of us. I do have viking cousins. But they said they will hollow me out a log so i am good. I really do wnat to knwo about my cat thpugh and my eyes. She s welcome to them honestly if she needs them and gets stuck in the house. Of course. Please do honey. You caus eme questions i havnt considered and answers them

But isn't it "hallowed grounds"? Also, "Oh, I wasn't expecting a woman" isn't sexism. "Uh, can I get a man instead?" and "Are you really capable of doing that job?" and "You've only been given that job because you're a female" are examples of sexism, all of which I've heard as a forklift driver and electrician.

Ten days can we eat phew

If I wasn't with my boyfriend, if Caitlyn was interested in women, and if I was a little bit older than 18, I'd try so hard to get a date with Caitlyn shes my hero and I have a HUGE crush 💓💓

I was so impressed with her game chatting up that lesbian funeral director around 21:49, and that chick was eating it up. I usually don't flirt like that until last call.

Just... Leave the whales alone!!!!!

Caitlin, you never breeched the subject of the jewish aspect of the funeral thing....its not just jamming a trocar into a belly button, bleeding them out, having a guy that looks like lurch with bad breath, bullying you and being rude and ripping you off. and being gruff greedy and mean...such a crud experience.

Man shes big

oh my gosh does this lady ever stop talking

I watch Time Team, A British show with Tony and the team. I watch the Archaeologist Excavate cremation burials from the Viking era

They found an entire Viking ship in some ones yard. Well half of it anyway. Time Team its a great show...

They do it over a hole. Then the ashes fall into the grave.