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Her cells live on, while her story remained largely untold.
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Death is a part of life, yet it remains a taboo subject.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
In the end, you will be just another person who has passed through this world.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Death is not the end; it is the end of a particular way of being.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
In the end, we’re all just dust in the wind.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
We are all just one accident away from being a cadaver.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
When you think about it, we are all just bags of organs.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
It’s a hard thing to go through life knowing that you’re going to die and not knowing how.
From The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
From One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Henrietta’s cells had a life of their own.
We’re all just a bunch of cells, and it’s all going to end up in the ground.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Human bodies are remarkably adaptable, in life and in death.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Authentic existence involves confronting our own mortality.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Their short lives are filled with intense experiences.
From The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Manuscripts don't burn.
The body is not a temple, but a tomb.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
The forgotten room reminded us of the fragility of life.
From The Forgotten Room: Inside a Public Patient Hospital by Dan Baum
The human body is the only machine that breaks down and doesn’t have a warranty.
We can learn a lot from the way our bodies decompose.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach