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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

By: Caitlin Doughty
Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
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What happens if someone dies on a plane?
Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?
Why don't animals dig up all the graves?
Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. In this book she offers factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting questions posed by her youngest fans, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn strange colours during decomposition? and why do hair and nails appear longer after death? The answers are all within . . . Biological Sciences Biology Death & Dying Science Sociology Witty Funny Scary Thought-Provoking
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Nobody likes to think about mortality, but if you're going to, there are far worse places to start than Doughty. WILL MY CAT EAT MY EYEBALLS? is funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential. As to whether or not your cat will eat your eyeballs? You'll just have to read the book to find out
Fascinating. Taking a no-holds-barred approach, Doughty writes in visceral and engaging detail about an often taboo subject
Consistently good fun
There's serious science here, but also cultural lessons in death and dying, a little history, and a touch of gruesomeness wrapped in that shroud of sharp, witty humour
[A] delightful mixture of science and humour
Doughty's answers are as delightful and distinctive as the questions. She blends humour with respect for the dead . . . Her investigations of ritual, custom, law and science are thorough, and she doesn't shy from naming the parts of Grandma's body that might leak after she is gone
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I have previously watched her YouTube videos and was delighted to hear she had books out. Wonderfully honest answers to children's questions done in a respectful way. Being educated does take some of the fear away from death and the not knowing.

wonderfully honest!

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Listening to Caitlin reading her book is a great tip your ears. The book itself is great and very interesting and her voice makes it very easy to listen to!

So relaxing to listen to!

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Short and entertaining book with the usual humor of Caitlin Doughty. I was looking for something fun and easy to listen to. Maybe not everyone would end up with a book about questions of death, but my favourite mortician makes the topic interesting and fun. I just wish it was longer.

Fun book about death

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Caitlin Doughty has such good humor and is informative. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

Informative and funny

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Caitlin has given us a 5⭐️ premier collection of accounts, with an evident, deeply felt humanity and sensitivity.
Educational, funny, darkly dark end of life stuff, that answers many of the questions that most of us have, but may be too squeamish to ask.

Noir is the new hilarious

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