which claimed my heart when, amongst shelves of leather
bound books and over a serenade that you would hear in a pet
shelter commercial, she says: “Despite recent advances in
medical science, an estimated 100% will die from death alone.
These numbers are staggering, but there is hope.” She is
hilarious, and smart and is revolutionizing a whole industry by
supporting at-home death care, environmentalism, death
rituals and a medieval philosophy known as ‘The Art of Dying.’
She fights relentlessly and honestly against the National
Funeral Directors Association – which she views as a capitalist
association whose only goal is to make money and influence
people into thinking they can be immortalized through
products and fancy processions. Plenty of funeral homes
actually pay their directors on commission, so they have to
prey on the grieving for a good buck. I felt like I had found a
kindred spirit in Caitlin and knew immediately what to do.
Within a few days I submitted an application to the only
school in Washington that offered a Funeral Services program,
Lake Washington Institute of Technology. A week later I got
an e-mail stating I ha