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Caitlin Doughty Zoom Event

Ages 18 and up

Caitlin Doughty, author, mortician, advocate and founder of reform collective, The Order of the Good Death

Join us for a conversation with Caitlin Doughty. Hailed by The New York Times as "a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld,” she’ll discuss reform of Western funeral industry practices and much more with Mark Bazer (The Interview Show).

Her educational webseries "Ask a Mortician" has been viewed almost 250 million times and her three books were New York Times bestsellers—"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "From Here to Eternity" and "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?" She founded a Los Angeles funeral home as well as the funeral reform collective The Order of the Good Death, which spawned the death positive movement.

Doughty will be joined in conversation with Mark Bazer. Bazer is the host and creator of WTTW’s The Interview Show. Filmed in a bar in Chicago, the series features conversations that are as substantive as they are entertaining.

This is the virtual portion of the live Zoom event.

Please register for this Zoom event only if you don't plan to attend the virtual presentation at library.

To participate via Zoom, all you need is a device (desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone) with a camera, microphone and an internet connection. Or, if you don't have a device, you can call into the event with your phone.

You will receive an email with the Zoom link prior to the event.

This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering high-quality events. Funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a Department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

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