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

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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death is a collection of questions asked by children and their answers from Caitlin Doughty's book tours. Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it.” 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.? The book is a great example of how the knowledge of an expert can be broken down to interesting, short, funny, intelligent and catchy pieces and how much death can show the living how do be thankful for each day, enjoy each moment, be kind to each other, yada yada yada, boring! Carpe diemality.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty | Waterstones Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty | Waterstones

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?!) As a child, Doughty learned about death violently when she saw another child fall in a shopping mall (“a complete aberration”). Afterwards, she developed OCD symptoms including tapping and compulsive spitting. “My brain was being invaded with the knowledge of death and the fact that people could be taken away from me at any moment and I couldn’t control it. All I could control were these little rituals.” The second novel by the co-writer and star of Gavin & Stacey follows three female friends over the course of four decades. Each woman faces challenges that test the limits of their friendship, from addiction and infidelity to toxic relationships, grief and betrayal. 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. Men Who Hate WomenA wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated real-life outside books:

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Best selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from children about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. I like horror, humor and science and this book has everything in it. The wit often comes just from the constellations of topics, from questions an adult wouldn´t dare to ask. So the philosophy that is still in kids and gets lost more and more with the ages, jumps from each side because the questions may seem trivial, but have hidden depths. 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. Speaking to children about difficult topics is never easy, but the concerns are often comfortingly stereotypical. Perhaps the kids are old enough to discuss the birds and the bees or they’ve joined a sketchy peer group that demands a stern talk about drug or alcohol abuse. But sitting them down to talk about death? A talk centered on the most uncomfortable reality of all might end up being tougher than anything featured on the Dr. Phil show. That’s because, in the Western world, it may be the one concept that’s far more challenging for the adults in the room to face than it will be for the children. But, as demonstrated in Caitlin Doughty’s new nonfiction book, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, that doesn’t mean that kids don’t have an interest in the topic. In fact, they have more than a few questions about it! No — the medical device can act like a small bomb in the cremation oven. It can, and should, be removed beforehand, Doughty says.This is a question I have never asked myself before. So now I need this book to find out the answer. Reading these has had me thinking about my own late mother's death, and my own eventual one, in a less-fraught way, so, good. Oh, hey. It’s me, Caitlin. You know, the mortician from the internet. Or that death expert from NPR. Or the weird aunt who gave you a box of Froot Loops and a framed photo of Prince for your birthday. I’m many things to many people. While this book is influenced by questions from children, I wouldn’t say it’s a great book for kiddos to read unless they’re mature enough to think about decomposing bodies. But hey, maybe that’s the point. Normalize it!