Will my cat eat me? And other live -free questions about death. Caitlin Dauti

The author of the bestsellers and funeral affairs, Master Caitlin Dauti answers the real questions of children about death, dead bodies and decomposition. The book is a bestseller New York Times, winner of the Goodreads Choice Award 2019 in the Science and Technology category.

Every day the owner of the funeral bureau Caitlin Dauti receives dozens of death questions. The best questions are asked by children. What would happen to the body of the astronaut if he was pushed out of the spaceship? Do people poop after death? Is it possible to arrange the burial of the Vikings?

In this book, Dauti combines its professional knowledge and intriguing stories that underlie common misconceptions about corpses. It turned out detailed, funny and frank answers to 35 bright questions asked by children. In his inimitable manner, the author talks in detail about what is happening with our bodies and inside them after death. Why do corpses moan? What does the bodies change the color during the decomposition? And why does hair and nails look longer after death? You will find out which soil is best suited for the mummification of the body, whether it is possible to save someone's skull and what happens when someone dies in the plane.

This book, illustrated by Dianne Ruz, shows us that death is science and art, and only asking questions, we can begin to accept it.

for whom this book:

For those who do not avoid talking on complex and taboo topics.

For those who would like to learn more about natural processes related to dying, and funeral customs and practices.

For everyone who is terribly interested.

from the author:

What is this book?

Everything is quite simple. I collected the most vivid and lovely questions that they asked me about death, and answered them. This is not rocket science, my friends! (Note: In fact, there will be about missiles here. See the chapter “What would happen to the cosmonaut’s body in space?”).

Why do people even ask you questions about death?

I am a funeral and is ready to answer strange questions. I worked in the crematorium, studied at the school of embalming, traveling around the world, studying funeral traditions, and opened my funeral bureau. In addition, I am obsessed with corpses. No, no, do not think about something-not in some perverted sense (nervous laughter).

I also gave lectures on the miracles of death in all the United States, in Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. My favorite part of these events are questions and answers. It is at such moments that I understand how much people are interested in the decomposition of corpses, traumatic brain injuries, bones, embalming, funeral bonfires, and in a word-all similar.

Any questions about death are good, but the most straightforward and provocatives are asked by children (to parents). Just thinking about to conduct talks about death in this format, I imagined that children's questions would be angelic-innovative and cute. Ha! As if not.

Young people bolder and often penetrate more than adults. And they do not hesitate to ask about blood and guts. Of course, they are interested in learning about the immortal soul of their parrot, but they are more concerned about how quickly it will decompose in the shoe box under the maple.

So all the issues collected in this book came from one hundred percent ethically bred, natural children growing on a free walk.

But is it all creepy?

The thing is: to be interested in death normally. But with age, people learn the idea that it is “unhealthy” or “strange”. They grow in fear and condemn others for an interest in this topic in order to protect themselves from a clash with her.

The problem is here. Most people in our culture are illiterate in matters of death and therefore are even more afraid of it. If you know what is contained in a bottle with a embalming liquid or what a forensic expert is doing, or you know the meaning of the word “catacomb”, then you are formed better than many of your mortal brothers.

Honestly, death is hard! We love someone, and then he dies. It seems unfair. Death is violent, sudden and unbearably bitter. But this is reality, and it will not change only because we do not like it.

There is nothing funny in death, but we can make it fun. Death is science and history, art and literature. It binds all cultures and unites all of humanity!

Many people - including me - believe that we are able to control some of our fears, taking death, knowing it and asking as many questions as possible about it.