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We talk with Amber Carvaly; a licensed mortician who is best known for her work at Undertaking LA, and most recently for running Death Care Connect - a safe space and networking platform for those dealing with grief, and much more. Her goal is to provide direct access to those who may have questions, have feelings, and generally offer a place of nurturing for this very tough subject. Death is one of the great equalizers in this world, and it’s something most of us are scared to talk about. Amber’s sensible and gentle approach is definitely something to be admired, and her work undoubtedly has changed the lives of many and will continue to do so. "I co-founded and ran Undertaking LA, a mortuary in Los Angeles that believes that one of the best ways to process a death is to be a more active participant in the funeral process. This can include washing and dressing the body, doing the make-up and hair, helping to fill the grave in a burial, or simply witnessing the cremation." , said Carvaly. LEARN MORE ABOUT DEATH CARE CONNECT https://www.deathcareconnect.com/ FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/millennialsrevenge/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/millennialsrevenge/support

Caitlin Doughty is the death professional behind the Internet’s favorite show about death, Ask a Mortician, and founder of the Order of the Good Death, which works to overcome our culture’s anxiety about dying, grief, and the afterlife. She runs her own funeral home, Undertaking LA, which offers alternatives to traditional, formaldehyde-soaked approaches to burial. In her book From Here to Eternity, she travels the world in search of the good death, from Mexico and North Carolina to Japan and Bolivia, learning about the ways in which other cultures have approached the end of life. We originally spoke to her in 2017, digging in to the subjects of corpse interaction, alternatives to the casket, and what death means to her.Go beyond the episode:Caitlin Doughty’s From Here to EternityCheck out Landis Blair’s illustrations for the book on our episode pageAsk a Mortician all about coffin birth, ghost marriage, and the iconic corpses of the world on Caitlin’s YouTube channelRead more about the Order of the Good Death, an organization of funeral professionals working to change attitudes about deathVirtually visit the high-tech Ruriden Columbarium in Tokyo, Japan with head monk Yajima TaijunTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Caitlin Doughty is the death professional behind the Internet’s favorite show about death, Ask a Mortician, and founder of the Order of the Good Death, which works to overcome our culture’s anxiety about dying, grief, and the afterlife. She runs her own funeral home, Undertaking LA, which offers alternatives to traditional, formaldehyde-soaked approaches to burial. In her book From Here to Eternity, she travels the world in search of the good death, from Mexico and North Carolina to Japan and Bolivia, learning about the ways in which other cultures have approached the end of life. We originally spoke to her in 2017, digging in to the subjects of corpse interaction, alternatives to the casket, and what death means to her.Go beyond the episode on our website: https://theamericanscholar.org/in-search-of-the-good-death/Caitlin Doughty’s From Here to EternityCheck out Landis Blair’s illustrations for the book on our episode pageAsk a Mortician all about coffin birth, ghost marriage, and the iconic corpses of the world on Caitlin’s YouTube channelRead more about the Order of the Good Death, an organization of funeral professionals working to change attitudes about deathVirtually visit the high-tech Ruriden Columbarium in Tokyo, Japan with head monk Yajima TaijunTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on Typical Books we have, movies! Click through the timestamps below as my dearest friend Amy, The Glamour Ghoul, and I sit down for a coffee talk about horror and film. One theme we return to and explore is the unreliable narrator and taboo fueling what is and is not horror. There is a huge divide in horror fans describing what is horror. Can it be horror without a supernatural element? This is a booktube, horrortube and Canadian crossover! Amy is in the midst of PhD studies and when we get together, watch out! We may start discussing the Donner Party over brunch! Add her channel to your horrortube list here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjfEmUezIu7pgRnKCRKmWA 00:01:00 - Introducing Amy Vosper 00:03:27 - American Mary vis a vis Rabid 00:09:20 - Contagion 00:11:59 - Cold Skin and the Lighthouse 00:13:13 - Can it be monstrous without a monster 00:16:16 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre vs Black Christmas 00:21:00 - Ophelia the Cat 00:21:22 - Psycho versus Psycho 00:22:29 - Is madness supernatural? 00:25:00 - The Haunting 00:26:26 - The Turning 00:27:27 - The Hysterical Man and Gaslighting 00:31:00 - Supernatural Horror versus Serial Killers 00:41:00 - Terrifier 00:41:43 - Art the Clown 00:46:44 - Make up as horror characters 00:50:47 - Cannibalism in horror 00:51:49 - Caitlin Doherty, the good Death 00:52:53 - The Donner Party 00:55:00 - Spiritual cannibalism 00:58:49 - Animal Violence in horror film 00:59:00 - The Ring 01:04:00 - Cannibalism and Norman Bates 01:06:09 - Psycho via Ed Gein 01:09:20 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre 01:11:10 - The Shining and the Donner Party 01:12:49 - #Horrortube 01:13:43 - How to pronounce macabre 01:14:10 - True Crime Fans versus Horror Fans 01:20:10 - Richard Ramirez 01:21:39 - Robert Pickton vis a vis Ted Bundy 01:23:40 - Movement to not use killers' names 01:25:25 - Luka Magnotta 01:26:10 - True Crime and Horror 01:29:20 - Robert Pickton as the monster 01:30:30 - Paul Bernardo Karla Homolka who? 01:34:10 - Psychology and criminology and Gender Studies 01:35:09 - Jack the Ripper 01:35:20 - Green River Killer 01:36:10 - Journalism - Criminology 01:40:00 - Ted Bundy 01:41:00 - Dark Tourism 01:43:10 - Disney and AJs wicked earrings 01:45:10 - Undertaking LA 01:46:41 - Phantasm 01:53:03 - Ranking Halloween franchise 01:58:47 - Rob Zombie 02:06:05 - Spider baby 02:08:00 - Contact and watch our channels! 02:10:00 - Lydia Peever: If there's ever anything anyone wants us to pick apart... 02:11:00 - Have an ooky spooky day! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/typicalbooks/message

This week, Dani and Povs chat with Hollywood Mortician and Stand Up Comedian, Amber Carvaly! Amber has been a licensed mortician for 7 years and ran Undertaking La for 4 years! She has been featured on Trixie & Katya and Keeping Up with the Kardashians for her makeup work! Other credits include VICE, The New York Times and VOX! If we can't get famous in this life, we know Amber will make us look HAWT in the next!!! This week's movie: The Devil Wears Prada

Learn more about what sort of careers are available in the funeral industry. This presentation has representatives from Undertaking LA and the Order of the Good Death.

I am so happy to have Caitlin Doughty as my guest on Episode 4.  Caitlin is a licensed funeral director and the owner of Undertaking LA, a funeral home in Los Angeles.  She is the co-founder of Death Salon and the founder of The Order of the Good Death.  She is the host of Ask a Mortician, which is a highly entertaining series of videos on YouTube (my favorite is the one on Viking burials). Caitlin is also the author of TWO best-selling books – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, in which she discusses her experience working in a crematory, and From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which was published last year. In this episode of Death, et seq., Caitlin discusses what the death positive movement IS.  In this blog post, she explains what the death positive movement IS NOT.   Discussion topics: ⇒   Defining "death positivism" ⇒   What kind of pushback Caitlin receives, and what parts of her message resonate broadly ⇒   How social justice is an integral part of the death positive movement ⇒   Caitlin's relationship with the funeral industry ⇒   What each of us can do to be more death positive on a daily basis For more extensive show notes and to submit questions, please visit our website at www.deathetseq.com.

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (W.W. Norton) In From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, mortician Caitlin Doughty explores the world’s funeral traditions—from robotic graves in Japan to an Indonesian village where families live with the bodies of their dead for months, even years, prior to the funeral. Following up on her New York Times best-selling book SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES, the author argues that in modern America, funerals have become procedural and impersonal, meant to sanitize and distance the survivors’ from confrontation with mortality—all in the name of profit and “dignity.” The result is a culture pervaded by death anxieties and bereft of traditions that would help people make sense of their own mortal ends. Doughty advocates for alternative rituals designed to save us from the funeral-industrial complex. In her travels, Doughty encounters funeral traditions that, to our eyes, may appear both beautiful and appalling. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus tells a story about two nations with very different perspectives on death: the Greeks and the Callatians. The Greeks cremate their dead and are repulsed by cannibalism, while the Callatians consume their dead and are repulsed by cremation. Herodotus’s lesson remains true to this day: the funeral traditions of other cultures almost always strike the outsider as barbaric. Doughty, however, goes beyond ghoulish spectacle to ask how different cultures benefit from their unique funeral traditions and to question how our own culture might learn from them. Readers travel with Doughty as she learns about, and even participates in: The Japanese tradition of kotsuage, the ritual removal of large bone fragments from cremated ashes by family members using chopsticks A nonprofit mobile funeral pyre operation in Colorado that dodged local ordinances to revive a funeral tradition that dates back to prehistory A museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, for the mummies of disinterred corpses whose relatives could not pay the cemetery’s fee for “perpetual” interment; the museum includes a section for Angelitos, dead children whose bodies were believed to connect survivors to favored souls who could advocate for the living in Heaven An American research effort aimed at composting the dead and returning the body to its natural position in the cycle of life, death, and renewal A Bolivian woman’s efforts to collect and care for ñatitas, preserved human skulls that are treated like community advisors and are alleged to grant wishes; the skulls are at the center of conflicts between traditional beliefs and Roman Catholic teachings and, occasionally, enjoy smoking a cigarette In her encounters with these funeral rites and traditions, Doughty explores the profound value they hold for the community. From Here To Eternity is an eye-opening exploration of the many different, and often surprising, ways humanity embraces the inescapable fact of death, filled with vivid and sometimes shocking details about how diverse cultures send off their dead. But Doughty’s tour of the borderlands between the living and the dead is never simply morbid. As uncanny and surreal as some traditions may initially appear, when Doughty contrasts them to the vapid and emotionally sterile experiences promoted by America’s funeral industry, the depth and value of these ritualized customs is revealed. In a voice that is sympathetic, endlessly curious, and often engagingly humorous, Doughty advocates for a more humane and involved approach to mourning rituals. With lively illustrations by Landis Blair—whose style is a perfect match for Doughty’s humane and insightful prose—From Here To Eternity is a book about death for the living, and the importance of the rituals that help us understand how a meaningful end can enrich our sense of what it means to be alive. Mortician Caitlin Doughty—host and creator of “Ask a Mortician” and the New York Times bestselling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes—founded the Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs the nonprofit funeral home Undertaking LA.

Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, best-selling author, blogger, YouTube personality, and director of the nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA, has long been fascinated by death, what it means to treat the dead with dignity, and why we are so afraid of dead bodies. Her new book, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, sets out on a global journey to discover how other cultures care for their dead. With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters a range of rituals from a grandpa’s mummy being cared for in a family home in rural Indonesia to a Japanese practice of using chopsticks to pick bones from cremation ashes. As many cultures around the world celebrate their ancestors this time of year, join us for a refreshing look at death practices, mourning rituals, and how we might bring life to the way we think about death.

The question of what happens when we die—in a literal rather than philosophical sense—haunts many of us. But few have made it the focus of their life’s work. Here to discuss this is mortician Caitlin Doughty―host and creator of 'Ask a Mortician' and the New York Times best-selling author of 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.' She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA.Image credit: shutterstock.com

Cara is joined in-studio by mortician and death-acceptance advocate, Caitlin Doughty. They talk about her new book, “From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death,” as well as her work revolutionizing the funeral industry with her non-profit mortuary “Undertaking LA.” Follow Caitlin: @TheGoodDeath.

Cara is joined in-studio by mortician and death-acceptance advocate, Caitlin Doughty. They talk about her new book, “From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death,” as well as her work revolutionizing the funeral industry with her non-profit mortuary “Undertaking LA.” Follow Caitlin: @TheGoodDeath.

Caitlin Doughty — mortician, author and death acceptance advocate — joins us for a candid and humorous exploration of our mortality. Caitlin is on a mission to help our death-phobic society overcome anxieties about death and make death a part of life. She sheds light on all areas of death and the dying process in her popular Youtube channel “Ask a Mortician” and New York Times best-selling book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. She founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and co-founded Death Salon. She also runs Undertaking LA, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit progressive funeral home that empowers families to have a closer relationship with their loved one’s death. In this episode, Caitlin guides us through our rights — post mortem — and encourages us to consider a question not many are prepared to face: How would you like to die? Throughout our human history, families were responsible for the care of their own dead; the practice of transferring death care to a funeral home is a relatively new custom. Caitlin illuminates the non-funeral home & natural death care options that are available to us — at-home funerals, embracing decay, death doulas, natural burials and conservation cemeteries. Empower yourself to embrace the natural process of death and meaningfully interact with the dying process. Episode Breakdown: Show Introduction: SurThrival Pine Pollen Sale, upcoming product teaser & I'd Rather Hunt + Gather t-Shirts Hunt + Gather updates: Eating groundhog, roadkill deer and more! Q&A: The sustainability of hunting for 7.5 billion people Introducing Caitlin Doughty How Caitlin become enamored with the post mortem aspect of anatomy Theory and practice What is the common response to humor about death? The civilizing of civilization — what’s contributed to our fear and avoidance of death Caitlin’s exploration into the death rituals of cultures around the world Conservation cemeteries Death doulas, the non-funeral home experience and death acceptance The legalities of handling a dead body  Immaturity about death Elders vs orders How Caitlin would like to die Caitlin’s prognosis for the future of the human species

Called "America's (Kinda Dark) Sweetheart"by the Huffington Post, 28-year-old Caitlin Doughty was born and raised on the sunny shores of Oahu, Hawai'i. She is a writer, performer, and filmmaker. She started the Order of the Good Death, an online community of artists, actors, poets, musicians, and directors all committed to staring down their death fears through art. The YouTube videos she created for this site-most notably her question-and-answer series, "Ask a Mortician"-are what brought her to national media attention. She is writing a book "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory' to be published in 2014 and is in the process of opening her own alternative funeral home, Undertaking LA. As an end of life guide, Betsy Trapasso, assists the dying in making a peaceful transition from this world. Betsy is the hostess of Death Cafe Los Angeles where people gather to talk about death and life while enjoying the amazing food and cultures of the City. Betsy's passion is to change how we view death in the United States and that people may be less afraid of dying if they learn about other cultures that view death as a natural part of life. She is producing a feature length documentary about the death views, rituals ,and ceremonies of other cultures and countries.

Called "America's (Kinda Dark) Sweetheart"by the Huffington Post, 28-year-old Caitlin Doughty was born and raised on the sunny shores of Oahu, Hawai'i. She is a writer, performer, and filmmaker. She started the Order of the Good Death, an online community of artists, actors, poets, musicians, and directors all committed to staring down their death fears through art. The YouTube videos she created for this site-most notably her question-and-answer series, "Ask a Mortician"-are what brought her to national media attention. She is writing a book "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory' to be published in 2014 and is in the process of opening her own alternative funeral home, Undertaking LA. As an end of life guide, Betsy Trapasso, assists the dying in making a peaceful transition from this world. Betsy is the hostess of Death Cafe Los Angeles where people gather to talk about death and life while enjoying the amazing food and cultures of the City. Betsy's passion is to change how we view death in the United States and that people may be less afraid of dying if they learn about other cultures that view death as a natural part of life. She is producing a feature length documentary about the death views, rituals ,and ceremonies of other cultures and countries.