Mary Roach

The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?<br/>
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Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died.  Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science. <br/>
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Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre

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