Loading
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals
Summary
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. The best questions come from kids. 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 35 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? Listeners 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.
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.
Read on the Scribd mobile app
Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.
Reviews
In the tradition of Caitlin Doughty's YouTube series (Ask a Mortician), previous books, and podcast (Death in the Afternoon), this book is a frank and empathetic approach to questions that people, in this case, specifically children, have about death and dying.
I practically absorbed all three books. She has an amazing, fun, down to earth style and fears no question.
Caitlyn is a very engaging and articulate woman who normalizes death and dying in a tactful way. I enjoyed listening to this and learned a lot!
I must have heard the author being interviewed for a podcast or two but this is my first full dose of her sense of humor and thoroughness, thoughtfulness around death related issues. Funny and informative, I learned how to pronounce livor mortis ! And I take back what I said about avoiding books narrated by the author. She was great!
This recording didn’t have the end! It cut off and ended mid section.
I have read Caitlin’s other books and really enjoyed them so I jumped at the chance to listen to this one. This book, while directed to a younger audience, answers just about anything you might want to know about dead bodies and what happens to them. If you are death phobic, this book is not for you but if you’ve ever found yourself wondering about mummies or how deep to bury a corpse, this book gives answers in Caitlin’s signature, humor- filled style.
Another delightfully deathly creation of Caitlyn. Ever so entertaining and enlightening.
Read and listened to this one today and it was pretty interesting. It's a pretty short one so it's perfect for me today. Here is my first read for November! Nightworms trope today is book lovers day. I will be reading all morning today before i start writing again. You may or may not be interested in knowing what kind of things go on when a human gets creamated and what happens when you are declared dead. If you are one of those curious people like me then this is the book for you.She also covers myths and theories about what happens to people if they die in certain places, eat certain things before they get cremated, graves aren't buried deep enough, dead bodies buried in the soil effecting the water we drink, the chances of being buried alive or will my cat eat my eyeballs? I work in healthcare so most of the healthcare related information wasn't new to me but it was interesting learning the things I didn't know that happened at funeral homes. The book was very well narrated too and she did a good job making the book more easy to listen to via audiobook. There was a bit dark humor in here too that I really enjoyed.