Item: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Rating: 4.00
Author: biblioholicbeth

by Caitlin Doughty

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 . . .

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.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

by Caitlin Doughty

Reviewed by Beth C. on Dec 10, 2019

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