Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs

We can’t make death fun, but we can make learning about death fun. Death is science and history, art and literature. It bridges every culture and unites the whole of humanity!

be fair, death is hard! We love someone and then they die. It feels unfair. Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it.

A mummy is a time capsule from an ancient culture.

No matter what the local laws say, there may be a funeral director who’s willing to sneak your pet’s ashes into your casket.

Not me, of course. Next question.

I’m not allowed to “bury” an animal in a human cemetery. Would I do it anyway? Umm, no comment. (tiny paw extends from your suit pocket)

No such thing as a free corpsicle!

Your cat might eat you after you die, but a vulture can’t wait to rip you to pieces and carry you off into the sky.

Pretty amazing, given that scientist didn’t even know these creatures existed until 2002. Who knows what else is out there in the world, devouring bone?

Osedax means “bone eater” or “bone devourer” in Latin.

if they get hungry enough, they will. Humans behave the same way. When Paris was under siege in the late sixteenth century, the city was starving. When people inside the city ran out of cats and dogs and rats to eat, they began disinterring bodies from the mass graves in the cemetery. They took the bones and ground them into flour to make what became known as Madame de Montpensier’s bread. Bone appetit! (Actually, maybe don’t bone appetit, as many who ate the bone bread died themselves.)