Caitlin Doughty, "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs"

Caitlin Doughty discusses her book, "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs", at Politics and Prose.
Author of the bestselling Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity, founder of The Order of the Good Death, and creator of the “Ask a Mortician” web series, Doughty gets dozens of questions every day about death. These range from the whimsical to the scatological, and many of the best come from kids. In her new book, she draws on science, cultural histories of mortality, and her practical experience as a licensed mortician to address 35 of these inquiries from younger readers, explaining what happens when someone dies on a plane and describing the best soil for mummifying your dog.
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