Mortician Caitlin Doughty—host and creator of "Ask a Mortician" and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes —founded The Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA.
发表于2025-04-10
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 科普 science nonfiction 2019阅读 英文原版 美国文学 non-fiction 2020
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. 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 thirty-five 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? Readers 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. Beautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it.
3.5/5 This book would be viewed as scandalous and heretical had it been published a hundred years ago, but today one can't help but find this little collection of answers to questions about death raised by children adorable. Despite some recycled material stuffed in there, this book still entertains and makes you laugh at the 'ultimate tragedy'.
评分这本书太欢乐了。我从来没有想到自己会读一本有关死亡的书读得这么快乐。尤其在这样的一个非常时期。一问一答的方式让人很容易读下去,不知不觉中还增长了很多知识。会去看她的其他书。
评分小孩子读应该会比较喜欢。
评分呃本來想年末開看年初看完湊個2020閱讀數,結果看入迷了三四天就翻完了....但其實還是挺不理解憑什麼 Goodreads Choice Award 把 Dumb Birds in North America 放在幽默類而這一本書卻能在科學技術類奪冠,我看基調差不多,也就7/10水準(。有點像 Randall Munroe 的 What If,只不過話題變成了 postmortem changes 和殯葬處理,提問的人都是小孩所以整體顯得比較子供向,內容嘛就大部分知識你可以靠看兩季CSI獲得......作者的暢銷書文風讓你看的時候刷刷猛看愛不釋手,看完留下無限空虛「我看這幹嘛,我花這時間去看CSI不好嗎」(對不起一直cue CSI
评分题材毕竟好,信息量不高但读的过程蛮开心的,虽然经常有那种嘭的一下捧出一个宝贝还要卖个关子逗逗小孩的讨厌语气。
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书