What do animals know about death - and what can it teach us? Chimpanzees care for the sick and mourn the dead tribesmen. Orcas carry dead cubs with them for weeks, as if they cannot come to terms with the loss. Elephants cover the corpses of relatives with branches and earth, performing a primitive funeral rite. And the possum, at the sight of danger, pretends to be dead: it falls into paralysis, lowers body temperature, sticks its tongue out of its mouth and emits a cadaverous smell. Like a cat from the Schrödinger paradox, he is both alive and dead at the same time. As the Spanish philosopher Susana Monceau proves, animals do not just have an idea of ​ ​ death: their relationship with it is much more diverse and surprising than we can imagine. "Schrödinger's Possum" is a natural science detective story that combines philosophical theory with the latest data from ethology and comparative psychology, and observations of wildlife with reflections on existential questions.