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A review by amypeveto
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty
4.0
“We can’t make death fun, but we can make learning about it fun. Death is science and history, art and literature. It bridges every culture and unites the whole of humanity!”
If you’ve spent any time around kids, you know they ask wild questions — turns out, this trend extends to the topic of death. Why don’t bugs eat people’s bones? If I died making a stupid face, would it be stuck like that forever? Can I preserve my dead body in amber like a prehistoric insect? Mortician Caitlin Doughty answers these and other genuinely interesting questions with her characteristic sense of humor and expertise.
I’ve been a fan of Doughty’s stances and sense of joyful macabreness for years, and it was so fun to hear the kinds of questions she gets “out of the mouths of babes” who have yet to develop the fears and filters that make death taboo. I find the human body and cultural practices/beliefs around death and dying fascinating, and I consider this Q&A a great addition to my “shelf of books that make normies super uncomfortable.”
A great read for those who love “weird” science, cultural studies, and want answers to questions they’re too afraid to ask.
If you’ve spent any time around kids, you know they ask wild questions — turns out, this trend extends to the topic of death. Why don’t bugs eat people’s bones? If I died making a stupid face, would it be stuck like that forever? Can I preserve my dead body in amber like a prehistoric insect? Mortician Caitlin Doughty answers these and other genuinely interesting questions with her characteristic sense of humor and expertise.
I’ve been a fan of Doughty’s stances and sense of joyful macabreness for years, and it was so fun to hear the kinds of questions she gets “out of the mouths of babes” who have yet to develop the fears and filters that make death taboo. I find the human body and cultural practices/beliefs around death and dying fascinating, and I consider this Q&A a great addition to my “shelf of books that make normies super uncomfortable.”
A great read for those who love “weird” science, cultural studies, and want answers to questions they’re too afraid to ask.