Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
22 September 2020
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, Singapore and Malaysia, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
New York Times Bestseller
Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award
“Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, Guardian
Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, 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. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. 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? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.
Reviews
"A charming guide into something we take enormous pains to avoid." — B. David Zarley, Paste
"There’s serious science here, but also cultural lessons in death and dying, a little history, and a touch of gruesomeness wrapped in that shroud of sharp, witty humor." — Terri Schlichenmeyer, Philadelphia Tribune
"My daughter hasn’t put it down. She reads it out loud to me while we giggle." — Kari Byron, author of Crash Test Girl and former host of Mythbusters
"A delightful mixture of science and humor.… Entertaining." — Library Journal
"A surprisingly heart-warming read." — Christy Lynch, BookPage
"Doughty’s answers are as… distinctive as the questions. She blends humor with respect for the dead.… Her investigations of ritual, custom, law and science are thorough, and she doesn’t shy from naming the parts of Grandma’s body that might leak after she is gone." — Julia Kastner, Shelf Awareness
Also By: Caitlin Doughty 
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Paperback, 2018
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, ...
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Hardback, 2017
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
E Book, 2017
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, ...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Paperback, 2015
In this "morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller that launched the death positive movement, a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
E Book, 2014
"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.
