A wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated real-life outside books: Totally worth reading and I am very glad I left my fiction comfort zone and gave this nonfiction book a whirl. No regrets! The founder of the Everyday Sexism Project turns her attention to the “manosphere”: a global network that believes in a feminist conspiracy in which men are the true victims of abuse and inequality. Bates’s research is impressively wide-ranging, spanning psychologists and sociologists to engagement with countless online forums, where she witnesses various forms of misogyny first-hand. Exposing links between sexism, white supremacy and the alt-right, Bates’s book is a compelling, timely investigation into contemporary gender politics. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Until fairly recently, my wife entertained the possibility of being a funeral director. As a result, we've watched about 80% of Caitlin Doughty's Ask a Mortician videos on Youtube. I bought her all three of Caitlin's books and now I'm reading them as some sort of homework assignment. She has been building up to Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? for years, with videos such as “ It Gets Better, Morbid Kids!” While the idea might send shivers up some parents’ spines, she says adults shouldn’t shut down children’s questions. “Maybe you’re terrified that something you say is going to set off some deep death fear in them. 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. She wishes more adults would give children information early on, so that when they inevitably encounter death, “they’re already used to talking about it, used to the more fun, interesting, curious parts.” She believes it’s possible, through science and humour, to train the brain “to see death as simultaneously very heavy and a source of great curiosity”.

Those who have read Caitlin Doughty's previous books know her talent for taking the usually bleak and depressing subject of death and turning it into something entertaining. A bit on the gross side perhaps, but entertaining nonetheless.The endeavor and motivation of the author to talk about death openly is very important because it weakens faith and makes people realize how short and fragile life is and to probably awaken more awareness and mindfulness. As already said, kids are the perfect breeding ground for healthy, normal thinking and talking about death and in this case, the old saying "Give them to us when they are still young and they belong us forever" gets a positive connotation. Instead of NIMBY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY, they ask why not the whole family is buried there. First, put the body into a very large instapot (euphemistically called a 'pressurised stainless steel cremation chamber'. cover with water and alkali. Heat to 350°F and raise the pressure. 'Cook' for 4 to 6 hours. 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. Out of the context of this book, but it would make an interesting question for the author: In space flight, the question of how to deal with the deceased, if there are still any, will be a topic too. All the ingredients might be too precious to waste them and many of the extraction procedures to get as much out of it as possible might not work well without gravity or lesser gravity than on earth, may take to long, be too energy expensive or just not economic. No — the medical device can act like a small bomb in the cremation oven. It can, and should, be removed beforehand, Doughty says.

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? 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. We can’t make death fun, but we can make learning about death fun. Death is science and history, art and literature. It bridges every culture and unites the whole of humanity! Greatly disturbed by this question, I had a talk with my cats today. I said look, it's about my eyeballs. Best selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from children about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.When faced with the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?”, very few kids would answer “undertaker”. Caitlin Doughty, perhaps most famous for her YouTube channel Ask a Mortician, certainly wouldn’t have. “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. It never even occurred to me that I could be a part of it,” she says. Nobody likes to think about mortality, but if you’re going to, there are far worse places to start than Doughty. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? is funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential, revealing not only how little we understand about death, but also how much kids can handle. As to whether or not your cat will eat your eyeballs? You’ll just have to read the book to find out. To be fair, death is hard! We love someone and then they die. It feels unfair. 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. Death is terrifying, she admits. But if a loved one dies, she suggests forgoing the cakey makeup and the chemical preservations. Facing death directly, especially at a traditional wake, Doughty says, can be a positive step toward navigating your new reality. What happens if you die on an airplane?