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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death — The System Behind Death Literacy

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Caitlin Doughty

This episode explores Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty as a systems-level analysis of how the modern death-care system influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated fears, the episode shows why death illiteracy persists — and how legal regulation, commercial sanitization, and cultural avoidance connect to larger social and institutional structures.

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