Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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Doughty, who hosts a YouTube series called “ Ask A Mortician,” believes that by learning and understanding death and the dead human body, we can overcome our fears and ultimately embrace an inevitable end. Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. The thing I liked most about this book is that while some of these questions seem plain ridiculous, the author answers them honestly and authentically. The author intersperses her humor in every answer, but the responses are genuine and she relies on science and history to answer the questions and make her point. In the chapter "I went to the show where dead bodies with no skin play soccer. Can we do that with my body?" Doughty explains that the show is called Body Worlds. She describes in detail how the bodies are preserved and how they are obtained. Apparently, there is a waiting list to donate your body to the exhibition. She ends with a warning that sometimes body parts are stolen. In New Zealand, someone snatched a few plastinated toes from a cadaver: "Each toe was valued at more than three thousand dollars --- pretty pricey toes, though not quite an arm and a leg."

All death questions are good death questions, but the most direct and most provocative questions come from kids. (Parents: take note.) Before I started holding death Q & As, I imagined kids would have innocent questions, saintly and pure. Out of the context of this book, but it would make an interesting question for the author: In space flight, the question of how to deal with the deceased, if there are still any, will be a topic too. All the ingredients might be too precious to waste them and many of the extraction procedures to get as much out of it as possible might not work well without gravity or lesser gravity than on earth, may take to long, be too energy expensive or just not economic.

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Instead, death has become a taboo, especially in Western society, where it is avoided to speak about it or to change something about how society has been instrumentalized and normed in any way around a topic that anyone should be interested in, because, you know...

Weirdly this has turned more into an account of the cool shit I learnt instead of a review. So I’ll wrap it up by saying that this book was amazing and hilarious, the illustrations were fantastic and I highly recommend it! (One last fact – did you know that the average male offers roughly 125,822 calories from protein and fat?!)Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death, written by mortician Caitlin Doughty, is the book to answer all those questions about death you've been too embarressed to ask. A wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated real-life outside books: I'm sorry to be the bearer of such bad news, but really, it's always better to face the facts. So now that you know the truth of your limited existence, you might be wondering what exactly will happen to your body when it's no longer living and breathing and eating and shitting. Some questions you might have that Ms. Doughty thoughtfully answers are:

The reality is that they will eventually. These are animals. Cats share a huge percentage of their DNA with lions and they will eat you if they do not have access to other food. And they'll usually go for the softer parts of your body — your lips or eyelids — because they're easy access, and then eventually, they wouldn't go for your eyeballs first, but they might eventually get to your eyeballs. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Obviously we don't want you to end up in that situation when you die, but you're creating new life. You eat meat in your life, and now an animal is eating you when you die. I don't think it's that far away from the cycle of life that we should be a part of.” Can a dead body be claimed as property in the U.S.? I’m a little bit obsessed with the Spooky Queen of Death, Caitlin Doughty. I love that she is trying to change our attitudes towards and make us all less fearful of the great leveller, DEATH. The more you know about something, the less likely you are to be scared of it. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? is technically targeted towards children or young adults, although I didn’t get that impression while reading. I found it to be incredibly informative, enlightening and funny. It’s the kind of book you read and can’t wait to share these tidbits of information with those around you. DID YOU KNOW.... and so forth. No — the medical device can act like a small bomb in the cremation oven. It can, and should, be removed beforehand, Doughty says.I suddenly was exposed to the reality of death in America and what goes on behind the scenes,” she says. “And instead of being horrified by it, all I wanted to do was tell people about it and let people know what would happen to their mother when she was cremated or buried or embalmed.” Caitlin Doughty (Photo by Mara Zehler) The endeavor and motivation of the author to talk about death openly is very important because it weakens faith and makes people realize how short and fragile life is and to probably awaken more awareness and mindfulness. As already said, kids are the perfect breeding ground for healthy, normal thinking and talking about death and in this case, the old saying "Give them to us when they are still young and they belong us forever" gets a positive connotation. Instead of NIMBY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY, they ask why not the whole family is buried there.