Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach

What happens after death? Whatever your religious views (or lack of them) about life after death, the path of our physical remains seems to be pretty set in stone; a service of some sort and then committal to the ground/crematorium. But what happens to buried bodies and to those who choose donate their bodies to medical science? Mary Roach conducted her own investigations and has compiled twelve short articles dealing with 'life after rigor mortis', from body farms to plastic surgery, through the history of dissection and cadaver experimentation (including animals). The book certainly has a wide remit and with each chapter being only around 20-30 pages long ...  Read the complete review