Stiff
A hilarious and witty look into the history of using cadavers for science, grave diggers, and options to consider about your burial plan. A dark and uncomfortable subject made more palatable and downright funny.
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- Stiff, the life of human cadavers, by Mary Roach
Fantastic book and look into Death and what comes after, well, at least for your corpse.
My reading list is ahead of Halloween, so trying to plow through all of these
https://robheffern.palaich.net/booklists/halloween/
Let me know what you think and if you have recommendations or criticisms!
- To those who are interested in reading more, I recommend Mary Roach's "Stiff" (and all her other work too!) highly highly highly!
- For anyone who liked this article, I can recommend Mary Roach's "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" (2003) [1]. A fantastic book about what happens to human bodies after death. Part of the book is about visiting a body farm. She's a funny, very talented writer.
- Mary Roach. Her books are quite fun to read.
The titles are good too.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
- "Stiff" by Mary Roach is also a good read on the many things that happen to dead bodies.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/...
- There's a rather good book on this subject: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/...
