Author: Caitlin Doughty

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

- Caitlin Doughty

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

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

- Caitlin Doughty

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

- Caitlin Doughty

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.

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

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.

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

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