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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
I found this book really fascinating, and also very educational, I learned a lot about the clinical and practical views on death and dying.
Which meant that I could handle it, I'm the kind of person who can't watch CSI, or true-crime stories, or even the news that much, because it makes me too upset to want to expose my fragile little psyche to that kind of thing intentionally.
The author has a very wry, very clever sense of humor, that helps keep the subject from going down an paths that are too dark, but it's not crude, or disrespectful, it's just very practical and clinical.
The sheer amount of history, research, travel and interviews that go into this book, which reads as sort of a first person account, with many, many historical accounts, and world views, with interviews from professionals and workers in every industry you can think of that deals with cadavers, the work that went into this book, is staggering.
It's not a book I could recommend to many, especially if they recently had a loved one die, they may not want to think about bodies so much....but I do feel that it's definitely worth reading, and rather enriching to have read, and have in one's head as general knowledge, and to contemplate as to choices about our ourselves and perhaps any difficult burial decisions that we might be responsible for on behalf of others.
Which meant that I could handle it, I'm the kind of person who can't watch CSI, or true-crime stories, or even the news that much, because it makes me too upset to want to expose my fragile little psyche to that kind of thing intentionally.
The author has a very wry, very clever sense of humor, that helps keep the subject from going down an paths that are too dark, but it's not crude, or disrespectful, it's just very practical and clinical.
The sheer amount of history, research, travel and interviews that go into this book, which reads as sort of a first person account, with many, many historical accounts, and world views, with interviews from professionals and workers in every industry you can think of that deals with cadavers, the work that went into this book, is staggering.
It's not a book I could recommend to many, especially if they recently had a loved one die, they may not want to think about bodies so much....but I do feel that it's definitely worth reading, and rather enriching to have read, and have in one's head as general knowledge, and to contemplate as to choices about our ourselves and perhaps any difficult burial decisions that we might be responsible for on behalf of others.