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

By Caitlin Doughty, Dianne Ruz (illustrator),

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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…

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1 author picked Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book contains questions posed by kids but we are all kids when it comes to death.

Scared kids with unanswered questions that creep up on us at three in the morning. This book combines that heavy morbid curiosity with the easy breezy comforting tones of Caitlin Doughty, my death hero.

She is expert, funny, reassuring, and keen for us all to embrace death so that we can live life better. Her enthusiasm for this is infectious and you walk away from any of her books or youtube videos happier to be mortal.

The questions kids asked got me thinking…

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