Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
And Other Question About Dead Bodies
Caitlin Doughty; illustrations by Dianné Run
W.W. Norton & Co., 2020
ISBN 9780393358490
Softcover, 256 pp.
5.5 X 8.3 X 0.6 inches | 0.4 pounds
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.