Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

by Caitlin Doughty

Dianne Ruz (Illustrator) and Dianné Ruz (Illustrator)

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death—Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.

• ISBN10: 0393358496
• ISBN13: 9780393358490
• Publish Date: 22 September 2020 (first published 19 September 2019)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: WW Norton & Co
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[Beth C.]

I wasn't sure what to expect, reading this - in fact, the main reason I picked it up was because I thought my son would enjoy it. I'm not sure if he would, but I certainly did! It's quite a fascinating look at death, from the perspective of the one group that doesn't mind openly talking about it - kids. The artwork is excellent (as in - tattoo-worthy kind of excellent), and goes so very well with each question addressed in the book. Doughty has written another compulsively readable book about death - which is not a sentence I ever thought I would write, really.