History WebVideo / AskAMortician

* YoungerThanTheyLook: A frequent occurrence in the comment sections of her videos is her viewers being surprised at how much Caitlin is younger than they were believing her to be. Despite her mature, motherly look, Caitlin is only in her mid-to-late-30s by March 2022, with her 37th birthday taking place in August of that year.

* HehHehYouSaidX: She got a lot of mileage out of "Mocha Dick", the real-life white whale who inspired ''Literature/MobyDick'', in her covering of the wrecking of the whaleship ''Essex'', due to her being sponsored by Audible for that particular video and thus wasn't beholden to [=YouTube=]'s monetizing guidelines.

''Ask A Mortician'' is a Website/{{Youtube}} [[https://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath video series]] created and hosted by author and licensed[[note]]Contrary to rumors from some people who have an ax to grind[[/note]] funeral director Caitlin Doughty, which currently has over a million subscribers.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Caitlin has a very deep, booming, and authoritative voice, and artificially lowers it to represent evil people or supposedly scary things, which only makes her narration all the more engrossing to listen to.
-->'''''[[RunningGag ...Cannibalism.]]'''''

* ValleyGirl: Given her profession, Doughty has little patience for superficiality, but if she wishes to invoke it, expect her to employ this voice.

* ShoutOut: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9jcFCS3eQ0 The Grave of the SECRET PORPOISE]]" begins with a segment of "[[WebVideo/BingingWithBabish Binging With Brother Doughty]]."

* HulaAndLuaus: Subverted. Doughty grew up in Hawai'i, and clearly has a deep connection to the place that goes beyond beaches and ukes (for one thing, she actually pronounces the name correctly). One of her most devastating videos involves a pilgrimage of sorts she took to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpR54iv5c0U a leper colony established by White people to segregate sick Hawaiians from their families.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: Especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9jcFCS3eQ0 plush porpoises!]]

'''Ask A Mortician''' is a Website/{{Youtube}} [[https://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath video series]] created and hosted by author and licensed[[note]]Contrary to rumors from some people who have an ax to grind[[/note]] funeral director Caitlin Doughty, which currently has over a million subscribers.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Invoked. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5xMpsYdzgg her video on the Donner Party]], she explains that one of the reasons things went so wrong for them is that the guy who advised them to take the Hastings Cutoff, Lansford Hastings (who, in her words, "sucks"), ''had never actually taken that route''. He'd just seen it on some old map and decided to send people that way, meaning he didn't know about all the ways it was actually impassable.

** A more brief case was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRBjWECptc the "homegoing" party of the (then-recently) deceased rapper Goonew]], who was embalmed, then taken to a nightclub and propped up on the stage in full clothing, as if he's alive and performing to the partygoers who were there to celebrate his life.

* WartsAndAll: Her history videos tend towards this tone. For example, her videos about cases like the Donner party or the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roj09VojHx0 Aokigahara forest]] try to dispel some of the sensationalism that has grown around them in popular culture, and to remind viewers that the people involved had actual lives of their own, with the complexity that that entails.