Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, 'Why do people die?' and 'Why is this happening to me?' Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.Caitlin Doughty
The most important thing I learned [..] is that we can do far better by the people we love. Better than what is being offered by the American funeral industry.Caitlin Doughty
Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity.Caitlin Doughty
You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it. It will not be cruel and it will not be punishment.Caitlin Doughty
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.Caitlin Doughty
My dad told me it was just important to carry on. My mother’s body was gone, yes. But the person who lived in that body was not gone; her body was not her.Caitlin Doughty
Funeral directors would like you to think that embalming is so totally normal you’re crazy if it even crosses your mind to consider otherwise. But didn’t we used to just...bury people when they died? Yes, and it makes a lot more sense.Caitlin Doughty
With the Internet, we can avoid as much pain and discomfort as possible. The problem is, humans are meant to deal with death. We’re hardwired for it. We’re meant to take care of our dead. It’s the final act of love.Caitlin Doughty
Death is only going to get more digital and more immersive. As it stands now, you can be cremated, your ashes turned into a synthetic diamond, and that diamond set into a ring.Caitlin Doughty
To always be considering our own deaths sounds morose; in truth, it is anything but.Caitlin Doughty