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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
Contributor(s): Doughty, Caitlin (Author), Ruz, Dianné (Illustrator)
ISBN: 039365270X     ISBN-13: 9780393652703
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $23.36  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Death & Dying
- Science | Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology
- Humor | Form - Trivia
Dewey: 306.9
LCCN: 2019020020
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
 
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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 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Doughty, Caitlin: - 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, Undertaking LA.