History WebVideo / AskAMortician

After spending her post-graduate years in a crematory, Doughty began to wonder if the way Westerners, and Americans in particular, treated their dead, such as pumping them full of cancerous fermadahyde and chopping down a forest the size of New Jersey every year to build caskets just to put them in the ground, all for enough money to bankrupt the majority of families, was really worth it, and in 2011 founded the Order Of The Good Death, a group of like-minded morticians who were seeking a cleaner, cheaper and above all, more personal way to interact with our dead. She later also founded the nonprofit funeral home Undertaking LA to offer such services as biodegradeable coffins, natural burials, and the ability to be present with the body before burial or cremation.

* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Caitlin did an entire episode on the {{Trope Namer}}s. The story of the wrecked whaling ship Essex was an even more grim example.

* FanNickname: Her fans call her "Death Mother."

* CreepySouvenir: She has no problem with this, and offers people advice on how to get them if they want them.

* MedievalMorons: Played with. Doughty has a degree in medieval history, and so is presumably aware that not ''everyone'' in the Middle Ages was a gullible, superstitious witch-burner; but given her areas of interest she tends to focus on subjects that highlight this trope, such as corpse trials, female sexual fantasies about baby Jesus (yes, really), and of course, [[BurnTheWitch witch persecution]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: Invoked. In her video on the Donner Party, she explains that one of the reasons things went so wrong for them is that the guy who advised them to take the Hastings Cutoff, Lansford Hastings (who, in her words, "sucks"), ''had never actually taken that route''. He'd just seen it on some old map and decided to send people that way, meaning he didn't know about all the ways it was actually impassable.

* StatuesqueStunner: Doughty is over six feet tall and strong with it; traits that helped her get her job at the crematorium.

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* StatuesqueStunner: Doughty is over six feet tall and strong with it; traits that helped her get her job at the crematorium.

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Her webseries provides examples of the following tropes:

* ShrunkenHeads: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWSaN0QXBII Yep, she has a video about them too]].

After spending her post-graduate years in a crematory, Doughty began to wonder if the way Westerners, and Americans in particular, treated their dead, such as pumping them full of cancerous fermadahyde and chopping down a forest the size of New Jersey every year to build caskets just to put them in the ground, all for enough money to bankrupt the majority of families, was really worth it, and in 2011 founded the Order Of The Good Death, a group of like-minded morticians who were seeking a cleaner, cheaper and above all, happier way to interact with our dead. She later also founded the nonprofit funeral home Undertaking LA to offer such services as biodegradeable coffins, natural burials, and the ability to be present with the body before burial or cremation.

* CreepyMortician: A massive subversion. She's one of the happiest, most positive people on YouTube.

* StatuesqueStunner: Doughty is over six feet tall and strong with it, traits that helped her get her job at the crematorium.

* CreepyChild: Doughty admits she was one, and often says she feels that children have to be educated out of an interest in death and decay.

'''Ask A Mortician''' is a Website/{{Youtube}} [[https://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath video series]] created and hosted by author and licensed[[note]]Despite what some may whisper[[[/note]] funeral director Caitlin Doughty, which currently has over a million subscribers.

* FanCommunitiyNickname: She calls her followers "Deathlings".

'''Ask A Mortician''' is a Website/{{Youtube}} video series created and hosted by author and licensed[[note]]Despite what some may whisper[[[/note]] funeral director Caitlin Doughty, which currently has over a million subscribers.

* NoCorpseEverPoops: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv7MSFgT8TE Subverted. Big time.]]