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OverviewCan we give Grandma a Viking funeral? Why don't animals dig up all the graves? Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn strange colours during decomposition? and why do hair and nails appear longer after death? The answers are all within . . . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Caitlin DoughtyPublisher: Orion Publishing Co Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Dimensions: Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.220kg ISBN: 9781474613415ISBN 10: 1474613411 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 22 September 2020 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsConsistently good fun * SPECTATOR * 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 * GUARDIAN * 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 - GUARDIAN Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death - Guardian on SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES 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 - GUARDIAN Consistently good fun - SPECTATOR Author InformationCaitlin Doughty is a mortician, writer and advocate for funeral industry reform. In 2011 she founded the non-profit The Order of the Good Death, which spawned the death positive movement and is working to legalise human composting and aquamation in all fifty states of the USA. Her educational documentaries as 'Ask a Mortician' have been viewed over 250 million times and all three of her books - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - were New York Times bestsellers. She founded a Los Angeles funeral home, Clarity Funerals, and currently lives in upstate New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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