What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's
thatthe million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my
me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day?
Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out,
Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of
contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers,
engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life
goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a
reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia
operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near
the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the
way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets
electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits
a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness
of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking
philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads, a
North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for
ghosts, and the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge
University archive.
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