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Caitlin Doughty
, born in 1984. Studied Medieval History in Chicago, then trained as an undertaker.
She later founded an organization that works to overcome fear and insecurity in dealing with the dead.
Today Doughty owns a funeral parlor in Los Angeles and her YouTube series "Ask a Mortician" has more than a million subscribers.
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