Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

Title

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Author

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the author of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? as well as the New York Times best-selling books Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity. She is the creator of the “Ask a Mortician” web series and founder of The Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, where she owns and runs a funeral home.

Connect with Caitlin on her websiteFacebookInstagramGoodReads, or Twitter.

Book Details

Publication Date: September 10, 2019
Publisher: W.W. Norton Company
ISBN: 9780393652703

Book Description

Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral?

In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying your body, whether you can preserve your best friend’s skull as a keepsake, and what happens when you die on a plane. Beautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it. 

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My Thoughts & Takeaways

inally got around to reading Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs by Caitlin Doughty @thegooddeath. And I LOVED IT.

It’s a quick read, with morbid topics delivered in a knowledgeable and humorous way. So all my favorite things basically.

This was my Read Like Hell A Thon pick for the Sanderson Sisters prompt – book with a black cat on the cover.

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Ashley Hubbard

Ashley Hubbard is a blogger and freelance writer based in Nashville, Tennessee focusing on sustainability, travel, books, plants, coffee, veganism, mental health, and more. She has two other websites - wild-hearted.com and odditiesandcuriositiestravel.com

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