Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals

Caitlin Doughty

Sep 2019 · RB Media · Narrated by Caitlin Doughty

About this audiobook

Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician's knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying your body, whether you can preserve your best friend's skull as a keepsake, and what happens when you die on a plane. Beautifully illustrated by Dianne Ruz, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it.

Ratings and reviews

I first read "Smoke gets in your eyes" while studying forensics psychology in college, and fell in love with Caitlin's sense of humor. In this book she answers questions you never thought you'd ask, but are glad to know now. In an odd way, despite being perfectly healthy currently, it makes me feel more prepared for my inevitable demise.

The audio book, being listened to while reading the book, was about absolute joy to listen to. Ms. Doughty is very well versed in her field of study and she knows how to blend the macabre with humility and much-needed humor; but never shying away or being coy of the subject matter. At least, not intentionally.

Yeah after a long day of work I usually like to pop my eyeballs out of my head and then throw them in my cat's cat bowl and see if you know they're going to eat them or not sometimes they do sometimes they do I like this book because it explains it in-depth how you know you can tell if your cat's going to eat your eyeballs or not

About the author

Caitlin Doughty is a licensed mortician and the host and creator of the "Ask a Mortician" web series. She founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. Her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, was published in 2015.