CAITLIN DOUGHTY is a writer, filmmaker and death-industry reform advocate. She has written three New York Times bestsellers (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?) and created the 'Ask a Mortician' documentary series. She lives in upstate New York.

Each chapter covers a culture with a highly distinctive and apparently ghastly approach to their dearly departed . . . Think Bill Bryson doing an underworld special. This humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral?

CAITLIN DOUGHTY is a writer, filmmaker and death-industry reform advocate. She has written three New York Times bestsellers (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?) and created the 'Ask a Mortician' documentary series. She lives in upstate New York.

Each chapter covers a culture with a highly distinctive and apparently ghastly approach to their dearly departed . . . Think Bill Bryson doing an underworld special. This humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral?

CAITLIN DOUGHTY is a writer, filmmaker and death-industry reform advocate. She has written three New York Times bestsellers (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?) and created the 'Ask a Mortician' documentary series. She lives in upstate New York.

Each chapter covers a culture with a highly distinctive and apparently ghastly approach to their dearly departed . . . Think Bill Bryson doing an underworld special. This humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral?