Review 37: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Plot:


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 35 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? Listeners 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.


Good things: First Caitlin her self narrates this. I can't tell you how much I love when authors narrate their book. The book itself is also well written. Each answer to the point and hold no punches. Some of the questions have wonderful joke answers before the real answer is given. This book is like other books Caitlin Doughty has written and I read the book twice on the day it released it's that good.


Bad things: This book is about death and doesn't shy away from the details. I hate the feeling of needing to put this here but at the same time I really don't have to many complaints.


Overall thoughts: 5/5


Well written, very informative, and The audio book is done with the best narration I have heard this is an amazing book that I can't recommend enough. 

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