Fresh Air Weekend: Marty Stuart And Caitlin Doughty

Fresh Air

Published October 11, 2014 at 8:03 AM CDT

Caitlin Doughty is the founder of The Order of the Good Death, a group of funeral industry professionals, academics and artists who focus on the rituals families perform with their dead.

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

Marty Stuart: Keeper Of Country Music's Cowboy Couture: Out of love and necessity, Stuart has become a country-music historian. "People were throwing things away," he says. "I just took it as a family matter."

A Mortician Talks Openly About Death, And Wants You To, Too: "You're never going to be completely comfortable with it," says mortician and author Caitlin Doughty. "But it's an important process." Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is her new memoir.

You can listen to the original interviews here:

Marty Stuart: Keeper Of Country Music's Cowboy Couture

A Mortician Talks Openly About Death, And Wants You To, Too