DO WE REALLY HAVE TO TALK ABOUT DEATH during the holidays? (Yes)

I am stoked about the holidays. After this bonkers year of videos, going on book tour, working on another book, Death Salon, and planning for next year, this gal is ready to hunker down with all the food and shovel it in without interruption. 

Now granted I'm lucky, I've long since trained my family to ixnay the death phobic alktay. It wasn't easy, but I mean, you can't really ask me to NOT talk about death. What am I supposed to say when Aunt Kathy asks, "So what have you been up to?" or Cousin Frankie's new boyfriend asks, "So what do you do?" I basically wouldn't be allowed to talk. Which honestly, wouldn't be THAT awful. I'd just cuddle up with that pumpkin pie and see y'all next year. 

After may years and employing many tactics, I've finally gotten my family comfortable with the death talk. Mostly. Or they just tolerate me eating all their food then peacing out to what I'm sure they imagine is my rent-controlled tomb in Los Angeles. Point is, I've gotten through to them. 

But not everyone has such an easy time during the holidays. The holidays are HARD for a myriad of reasons, least of which is your loved one's discomfort with your death positive leanings. I get it. Really, I've been there. 

So in this video I talk about what has helped me get through to my death denying loved ones. When I asked you all to tell me the things your loved ones say to you to shut down, I got 250 replies within an hour, and hundreds more rolled in after that. So yes, to all the Aunt Kathy's out there, we need to talk. 

And heads up! Next week we will not have a video. Don't freak out, it's not going to be that I've forgotten to post it (...again). We've just been working on a longer video for the following week. Trust me, you won't be disappointed. 

So happy holidays deathlings, you can do it.

Yours in pie and putrefaction, 

Caitlin