Discussion Questions
We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available; in the meantime, use our LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for WILL MY CAT EAT MY EYEBALLS?… then take off on your own:
1. Of the 35 questions asked in this book, which do you find most intriguing? Which are the funniest? What questions would you want to ask Caitlin Doughty?
2. What have you learned after reading Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
3. Doughty compares the silence surrounding issues of death to the ways we deal with conversations around sex. Do you agree?
4. (Follow-up to Question 3) Adults tend to shut down children's questions about death. Is that wise? What about instituting "death education" classes in school or in church for children? At what age should young people learn about dying and death?
5. Doughty's mission, in her books, including this one, and on her YouTube series, "Ask a Mortician," is to dispel our fear of death, adults' as well as children's. Does this book help in achieving that goal? After reading Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, do you have a different attitude toward, or understanding of, death and dying?
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online and off, with attribution. Thanks.)
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