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

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I could definitely see that she really knows what she is talking about, so I think it would not be a problem for her to answer harder and more scientific questions. Photograph: Sammy Z ‘Death is simultaneously very heavy and a source of great curiosity’ … Caitlin Doughty and a friend. I also think it would be great for readers from elementary school up to any age, as it definitely doesn't read like a kids' book, but is very kid-friendly at the same time. Caitlin Doughty, perhaps most famous for her YouTube channel Ask a Mortician, certainly wouldn’t have.

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They are things that many of you may have wondered too, at least when you were children and before you learned that death is a taboo subject and also something to be avoided at all costs. Throughout, Jones’s trademark warmth and humour suffuse the novel with comedy and pathos, making for a heart-warming, entertaining and, at times, deeply moving story.That obsession has only intensified as I’ve got older, but the work of Doughty and other death-acceptance advocates has helped quell my fears.

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and “ Corpse phallus capers of Rasputin and Napoleon”, she’s been answering questions from curious adults for seven years. 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?Perhaps at some point in the future scientists will figure out how to upload our memories into machines and thus grant us immortality, but as of now, sorry, no can do. Particular highlights for me were reading about the man who was almost buried alive - if it wasn’t for the pallbearers slipping on wet leaves and dropping the coffin, causing him to awaken and ask to be let out. After attending mortuary school in San Francisco, Doughty, then 22, started working in a crematorium. While some of the queries are slightly odd (what happens if you swallowed a bag of popcorn before you died and were cremated?

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First of all, I love Caitlin's sense of humor so much, and it conveys just as well through text as it does in her videos. In her previous works, Doughty first aimed to help her readership understand her critical view on the Western attitude toward death and went on to show how her ideas are actually regressive rather than progressive. And children aren´t as constrained, onesided, indoctrinated and socially normed as adults so that they still have an open and healthy attitude towards the topic. Doughty, thankfully, is not comfortable with the idea of killing a live pet to be buried with its owner, but if the animal is already dead, all bets are off. The American mortician and YouTube star tackles some of the most commonly posed questions asked by children about death.The human remains were supposed to have been moved away from one particular thirteenth-century English church back in the 1970s. It was written in question-answer format (I listened to an audiobook) so it was really easy to get through it, but the majority of questions were just a little bit too ridiculous, I think she could answer more difficult questions then book would be much more fascinating. As well as the kookier queries, her videos also include “ Helping a Friend Through Grief” and “ Overcoming Death Denial in Your Family”. 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? She also tackles a few questions that I found rather disturbing, like Can I Keep My Parents' Skulls?