Some of them ask you to compliment a ghost, visit a witch doctor, taxidermy a family member, and mourn a dead family member. One of these totems even has you become a Mortician. Like in real life ...

Caitlin Doughty is a licensed mortician and writer living in Los Angeles. She is the founder of The Order of the Good Death and the host of the “Ask a Mortician” webseries. W. W. Norton will ...