Will my cat eat my eyeballs? : big questions from tiny mortals about death /

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician's knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying your body, whether you can preserve your best friend's skull as a keepsake, and what happens when you die on a plane.

Beautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

Mortician Doughty (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) has assembled a collection of more than 50 questions that people, especially children, have asked her about death, and answered them with a delightful mixture of science and humor. (The answer to the titular question? Yes, eventually.) Questions range from "Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?" to "Can I be buried in the same grave as my hamster?" to "What if they make a mistake and bury me when I'm just in a coma?" Each answer is only a few pages long and accompanied by illustrative cartoons. The topic of death is often avoided in conversation, but people are naturally curious about it, and most parents are likely to struggle with how to answer their children's questions--here is a book that will help. VERDICT An entertaining read, straightforward without being morbid. Of interest to anyone, young or old, who is curious about what happens to our bodies after we die.--Rachel Owens, Daytona State Coll. Lib., FL

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Caitlin Doughty is a licensed mortician and the host and creator of the "Ask a Mortician" web series. She founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. Her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, was published in 2015.

(Bowker Author Biography)