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Discuss Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death here! Please keep discussions spoiler free, considering people read at different speeds! Happy Reading 😊

Love everything Caitlin Doughty writes. Do you happen to follow her youtube channel? Have you read her other books? I loved From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.

After working in healthcare and seeing lots of death in a short time, Caitlin's books really helped me be prepared. Nothing can fully prepare you, but I was glad that I had been involved in the death acceptance movement and had been well-read on the topic at the very least.

If my young cousins ever had questions about death, I would recommend that the parents read Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies with them to help the kids talk about it and understand. Confusion can be a big source of pain when grieving; the obvious antidote is knowledge and understanding.

The way American culture interacts with death is so unhealthy. The thing I learned from From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death book and my own experience is that humans create grieving rituals for a reason. If you experience loss in your life, emotionally it's beneficial to have a ritual, an action to assign to grief. After a person dies, there is nothing to be done usually. I found lighting a candle for a deceased patient, drinking their favorite drink (often found in personal notes in long-term care patients), and spending a few minutes journaling and contemplating the person helped me. Anyway, off-topic. I just love this author.