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

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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. That obsession has only intensified as I’ve got older, but the work of Doughty and other death-acceptance advocates has helped quell my fears. Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, that doesn’t mean that kids don’t have an interest in the topic. The author intersperses her humor in every answer, but the responses are genuine and she relies on science and history to answer the questions and make her point. I could definitely see that she really knows what she is talking about, so I think it would not be a problem for her to answer harder and more scientific questions.

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Speaking to children about difficult topics is never easy, but the concerns are often comfortingly stereotypical. It’s precisely this willingness to lean into the jovial worldview of a child that makes this book so successful.Doughty, thankfully, is not comfortable with the idea of killing a live pet to be buried with its owner, but if the animal is already dead, all bets are off. Particular highlights for me were reading about the man who was almost buried alive - if it wasn’t for the pallbearers slipping on wet leaves and dropping the coffin, causing him to awaken and ask to be let out. The author has a way of making you a little less fearful of death with her humor, explanations, and positive outlook.

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I’ve also given talks all over the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on the wonders of death. I bought her all three of Caitlin's books and now I'm reading them as some sort of homework assignment.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. It's perhaps more information than the child who originally asked that question bargained for, but it certainly seems complete and real. The wit often comes just from the constellations of topics, from questions an adult wouldn´t dare to ask.

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I think it would be kinder to find someone willing to break the law who will dump your body at sea rather than have your beloved pet locked up with your decomposing body and little else.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.

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Let’s not forget the other tests that they used to perform in ye olden days to confirm death – shoving needles under toenails… and actually CUTTING OFF FINGERS! It was written in question-answer format (I listened to an audiobook) so it was really easy to get through it, but the majority of questions were just a little bit too ridiculous, I think she could answer more difficult questions then book would be much more fascinating.

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. Though advances in healthcare have extended the human lifespan in incredible ways, our new distance from death has turned it into a cultural taboo.