If you know what’s in a bottle of embalming fluid, or what a coroner does, or the definition of a catacomb, you’re already more knowledgeable than the majority of your fellow mortals.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About… Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About…

Tell you what's not going to work: marching on over to your local funeral home and saying 'Greetings! 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. She also tackles a few questions that I found rather disturbing, like Can I Keep My Parents' Skulls? Starting with “will my cat eat my eyeballs” and including ones like “can we give grandma a Viking funeral?

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. The questions are very good and I don't doubt young minds honed on Harry Potter can handle them and indeed have pondered them.

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Say it honestly, tell them ‘If something is bugging you, or you want to keep talking, I’m always happy to talk to you about this’,” she says.Caitlin, you're a national treasure, you're a great time, and you teach me and everyone who wants to know so much Stuff about being dead. I never had any sense of the funeral industry as anything other than this dark, archaic hole with a man in a suit putting electric green fluid through a tube into a corpse.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - Caitlin Doughty

And the reason is because yes, you're in charge of making decisions for your dad when he dies, but it's in a very narrow legal range of options — cremation, burial or donation to science. I watched her youtube video about this book and I consider it a recommendation because I never would have read this book otherwise. The person who is the next of kin, meaning the wife or the son or whoever is closest to the dead person, can make all the decisions for the dead body, but nobody truly owns it. Finish by draining off the greenish-brownish liquid of amino acids, peptides, sugars and salts, (don't drink this soup, it's not edible and not because it has too much sugar and salt) what you have left are soft bones ready for hand-crushing.No matter if it is a dog, cat, weasel, reptile (I am not sure regarding their eating behavior), if time and hunger are combined and carrion acceptable for the animal, well. Many people, including me, believe that we can control some of our fears by embracing death, learning about it, and asking as many questions as possible. Doughty's writing is unusually conversational in tone for a book with subjects that can be considered taboo.