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. 'Spry, common, sharp-witted survey brings a whole
new meaning to the phrase "Life after death"' Sunday Times 'One of
the funniest and most unusual books of the year' Entertainment
Weekly 'Every chapter packed with more arresting details elegantly
humourously expressed than one can hope for' Sunday Telegraph
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