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

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best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die.

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That's actually one of our biggest questions that we ask on our cremation forum is did mom have a pacemaker? Caitlin addresses the topics with respect but also with her dark sense of humor, making for an entertaining read. Each woman faces challenges that test the limits of their friendship, from addiction and infidelity to toxic relationships, grief and betrayal. And while she sets out to deliver factual responses to these inquiries, it certainly doesn’t stop her from joining in on the fun. With faith, hope, and compassion, acclaimed religion scholar Timothy Beal shows us how to navigate the inevitabilities of the climate crisis and the very real—and very near—possibility of human extinction .Or, as usually happens when I dish up food at the same time, will Hatter scoff his eyeball really quick and then shoulder Miranda out of the way as she is nibbling delicately on her eyeball? Photograph: Sammy Z ‘Death is simultaneously very heavy and a source of great curiosity’ … Caitlin Doughty and a friend. You’re never going to get over it, no matter what, but you remember the experience with a sort of melancholic, whimsical engagement. New York Times BestsellerWinner of a Goodreads Choice Award“Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential. I’ve also given talks all over the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on the wonders of death.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny M… Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny M…

Forcing them to leave behind rituals and ways of doing things that are really important to them,” she says. Not only does she manage to make it extremely informative, throughout she includes her comments with sometimes profound thoughts, real humor and a significant dose of brilliant wit.While reading this, I could actually see one of my kids visiting the library asking me or one of their parents some of these questions, and I am pretty darn glad I know the answers now. While the idea might send shivers up some parents’ spines, she says adults shouldn’t shut down children’s questions. 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? Because if it's not removed, the batteries that are inside of it contains so much compressed energy that once they're met with the 1,800-degree flames of the cremation machine, they do explode.