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.
