Caitlin Doughty 2 Books Collection Set (From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death & Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies)

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: Caitlin Doughty 2 Books Collection Set: From Here to Eternity: Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technicians fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the worlds funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industryespecially chemical embalmingand suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential. Marianne Eloise, Guardian Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions shes ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people.