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Currently, Caitlin Doughty is 39 years, 8 months and 6 days old. Caitlin Doughty will celebrate 40rd birthday on a Monday 19th of August 2024. Below we countdown to Caitlin Doughty upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Caitlin Doughty |
Occupation | YouTube Star |
Age | 39 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Leo |
Born | August 19, 1984 (Hawaii) |
Birthday | August 19 |
Town/City | Hawaii |
Nationality | Hawaii |
Caitlin Doughty’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Caitlin Doughty was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.
Most famous for her 'Ask a Mortician' web series, Doughty is also known for her activism on behalf of funeral industry reform and the death acceptance movement. In 2014, she published a bestselling book titled Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory.
After graduating from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in Medieval History and a concentration in Death and Culture, she began her career as a mortician at San Francisco's Westwind Cremation and Burial.
Her keen interest in societal treatment of death is likely rooted in the fact that, as a young girl, she witnessed the sudden demise of a fellow child in an accident. She turned her early morbid fascination into a highly successful career; by 2015, she had more than 39,000 YouTube subscribers and had created an organization called The Order of the Good Death.
She was born and raised in Oahu, Hawaii, and she later lived in Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.
She and country singer John Conlee both became licensed morticians.