Caitlin Doughty is a mortician in L.A. who is interested in bring death back into everyday life. To this end, she has a website, The Order of the Good Death, which includes a video series called Ask a Mortician where anyone with access to an internet connection can ask questions about Mortuary Science. There’s also a Facebook page and a Twitter account .

Madam Doughty is very personable and hilarious. And she has a Siamese cat that is quite enjoyable to watch.

The intro music reminds me of the incidental music of The Worst Witch . Whether or not that was intentional, it’s a plus. Big super plus.

Thus far there are twenty-two videos and I recommend all of them. But here are a few of my favourites.

To the Morbid Kids: It Gets Better!

Episode Three , which involves tattoos and Tibetan Sky Burial, but is not embeddable, for some reason.

Behold! An episode including Mary Roach!

This one is about decomposition! Using puppets!

This one covers different types of body disposal.

Exploding Caskets! KABOOM!

Donating your body to science (with grave robbers !)

The obligatory, but still very informative, Halloween episode:

And last but absolutely NOT least, she has an excellent video about how to talk about death with kids.

Bonus: She also did a very fun interview with Jeff Probst on his show:

So there you go. Subscribe to the YouTube channel and like her page and follow her Twitter and RSS her blog or whatever because she is funny and smart and she talks about dead things in funny and smart ways, for example this essay about why you should not take burial advice from country music songs.