Mary Roach
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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The body is not a temple, but a tomb.
What we do with our dead reflects our values as a society.
To me, the most fascinating thing about being a corpse is that you can’t do anything.
The only way to understand the body is to study it, in all its forms.
We have a strange relationship with our dead.
Cadavers are the ultimate test subjects.
We’re all just a bunch of cells, and it’s all going to end up in the ground.
Our bodies are a collection of stories waiting to be told.
Death is not the end; it is the end of a particular way of being.
The study of cadavers has given us insights into life itself.