Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from children about death, dead bodies and decomposition.

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it was pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral?

In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What If?, Doughty's new book, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, blends her scientific understanding of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five urgent questions posed by her youngest fans. Readers will learn what happens if you die on an airplane, the best soil for mummifying your dog and whether or not you can preserve your friend's skull as a keepsake.

Featuring illustrations from Dianné Ruiz, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? will delight anyone interested in the fascinating truth about what will happen (to our bodies) after we die.

About the author

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, and the founder of The Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, California, where she owns a funeral home.

Product details

• Authors: Caitlin Doughty, Doughty Caitlin, Dianné Ruz
• Assisted by: Dianné Ruiz (Illustration), Dianné Ruz (Illustration)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780393652703
• ISBN: 978-0-393-65270-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, HUMOR / Form / Trivia, Humour, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Mortuary practice