Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
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Author: Mary RoachEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05
ISBN: 0393324826
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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- ISBN13: 9780393324822
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "Death. It doesn't have to be boring."
Summary: 5 Stars
Did you know?
1) That necrophilia was not a crime in the United States until 1965.
2) In twelfth-century Arabia, men volunteered to eat nothing but honey until they died (about a month). Then their body would be placed in a stone coffin full of honey and there the body would macerate for 100 years. Then the seals are broken and the remains used for medicine, some of it taken internally.
3) In the 1950's Vladimir Demikhov performed many head transplants on dogs. One dog lived for 29 days with two heads.
Well if you found any of those facts interesting then you should do yourself a favor and check out Mary Roach's "Stiff". The same subject matter in a lesser writer's hands would have come off boring and well stiff, kinda like a textbook, but luckily for us readers with short attention spans Mary's writing is engaging and a lot of fun to read.
Highly recommended for the morbidly curious.
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