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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
A really interesting book, about a subject that, I think, we are all secretly interested in: what happens to us when we die? Not the spiritual, is-there-an-afterlife subject, but the other side of it. When we die, we're essentially just meat.
But what happens to it?
It's an interesting look at it, and Roach treats the subject with a great deal of respect, and the black humour that one would expect from somebody researching decomposition and funerary rites.
My only complaint about it is that she kind of strays from her core topic in places. Yes, she talks about human remains the whole time, but not in the way that she states she is going to, and stops talking about cadavers themselves, and more about how the living deal with them.
Still, it is a good read, and I recommend it highly.
But what happens to it?
It's an interesting look at it, and Roach treats the subject with a great deal of respect, and the black humour that one would expect from somebody researching decomposition and funerary rites.
My only complaint about it is that she kind of strays from her core topic in places. Yes, she talks about human remains the whole time, but not in the way that she states she is going to, and stops talking about cadavers themselves, and more about how the living deal with them.
Still, it is a good read, and I recommend it highly.