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"Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What If?, Doughty's new book, Will My Cat...
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Newmarket Press
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In this hilarious and moving book, popular English humorist Miles Kington faces cancer and death with his sparkling trademark wit, musing on everything from board games and yodeling to the prospect of being outlived by his dog.
When some people are told they have only a few months to live, they might travel around the world or write their memoirs or put their affairs in order. When it happened at the age of 66 to Miles Kington-one of England's best-loved...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2010
Description
If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique...
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Series
Minimuertos volume 2
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
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Los Minimuertos: ¡una aventura para morirse de risa! Los Minimuertos son una pandilla de niños bastante diferentes a ti: son niños de ultratumba. Esperan a sus padres en el Otro Barrio, un lugar de paso donde tienen libertad para hacer lo que les venga en gana. Petunio lleva unos días preocupado. Las flores que viven en su cabeza están algo pochas. Necesita una solución. Decide visitar a Dinamito y pedirle ayuda, pero todo se tuerce de una forma...
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Plume
Pub. Date
[2024]
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It's safe to say everyone thinks about death--whether they want to or not. But have you ever wondered about what sort of keepsakes you can make with your remains, or given any thought to the most scandalous deathbed confessions throughout history? Well Madison Reyes and Spencer Henry have, and they've spent countless hours scouring the darkest corners of the internet, digging through newspaper archives, devouring documents, and picking the brains...
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"Death is not for the faint of heart, and sometimes the best way to cope is through humor. No one knows this better than comedian Laurie Kilmartin. She made headlines by live-tweeting her father's time in hospice and her grieving process after he passed, and channeled her experience into a comedy special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad. Dead People Suck is her hilarious guide to surviving (sometimes) death, dying, and grief without losing your mind. If...
Series
Io volume no. 71
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Description
""In Exit Laughing, author and editor Victoria Zackheim, along with twenty-three other contributing writers, examines the humorous side of our mortality"--Provided by publisher"--
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
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"A comprehensive, informative, and utterly debilitating compendium of surprising ways you might die a horrible death at any moment--all of them based on actual research about the perils of everyday life--from master humorists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf"--
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Publisher
Otwarte
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Każdego dnia Caitlin Doughty, najsławniejsza na świecie właścicielka domu pogrzebowego, otrzymuje dziesiątki pytań dotyczących śmierci i zwłok. Te najciekawsze pochodzą od dzieci: Co stałoby się z ciałem astronauty, gdyby zostało wypchnięte z promu kosmicznego? Czy mogę babci wyprawić pogrzeb w stylu wikingów? Pozwolą mi trzymać czaszkę mamy na biurku? Czy po śmierci można oddać krew? Czy mój ukochany Mruczek nadgryzie moje...
14) Killer fashion
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"A beautifully illustrated book about deadly fashion--real historical stories of strangulation by scarves, neckbreaking high heels, and riot-causing top hats--from the author of the popular histories "Get Well Soon" and "It Ended Badly"... A darkly comic book about some surprisingly lethal garments. Featuring stories like the untimely demise of dancer Isadora Duncan caused by her signature red scarf and the bloody riot that greeted the appearance...
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