Book description
What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test
Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?
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.
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
Mary Roach is a journalist. She has written for Salon, Wired, GQ,
Discover, Vogue and the New York Times Magazine. This is her first book.
