Dec 7, 2025
Absolutely captivating, one of the best audiobooks I’ve listened to.
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“There’s one thing dead people excel at: they’re very good at handling pain.”
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Absolutely captivating, one of the best audiobooks I’ve listened to.
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“There’s one thing dead people excel at: they’re very good at handling pain.”
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Ho Chi Minh City Shuts Controversial Exhibit of Plastinated Corpses http://dlvr.it/Qc3rjr
On the inside, 'H' looks very much alive. You can see the pulse of her heartbeat in her liver and all the way down her aorta. She bleeds where she is cut and her organs are plump and slippery-looking. The electronic beat of the heart monitor reinforces the impression that this is a living, breathing, thriving person. it is strange, almost impossible, really, to think of her as a corpse. When I tried to explain beating-heart cadavers to my step-daughter Phoebe yesterday, it didn't make sense to her. But if their heart is still beating, aren't they still a person? she wanted to know. In the end, she decided they were 'a kind of person you could play tricks on but they wouldn't know.' Which, I think, is a pretty good way of summing up most donated cadavers. The things that happen to the dead in labs and ORs are like gossip passed behind one's back. They are not felt or known and so they cause no pain.
Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
Book 2 of 2 finished today.
Back in high school, one (or maybe more) of my friends read this book. I had forgotten about it until I saw it on the list for the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, but all I remember about ti was that the cover had the picture of bare feet on it. I was sure that none of the libraries in the area even had the book as I wasn’t sure how popular of a read it would be among the people of our area. But, I found one that had it, so I got it to knock it off the Reading Challenge.
This book discusses what happens to people who donate their bodies to science after they have died, or cadavers. I didn’t realize this until I looked at the full title of the book and then read the description and the introduction. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about reading stuff like this, though I’m proud to say I wasn’t as squeamish as I thought I would be. (Must have been all those years watching those weird medical shows about what happens in the trauma rooms at hospitals that prepared me for this book.) However, I still refused to read it while eating anything other than the grapes or Pringles I’ve been snacking on at night (hence why I needed something light a fluffy like Princess Diaries while eating lunch at work).
It’s clear to me that the author did more than enough research for this book. She took the time to go to different labs and observe the different procedures that she was talking about, something that I wouldn’t have been able to do seeing as I wasn’t a huge fan of bisecting worms in 7th Grade Science. This is clearly a book meant more for the medical and/or science fields or for people who are more into what happens to bodies after death (that isn’t the usual funeral that we sit through). Readers also need to have a strong stomach because the author does describe in detail the procedures done, and these descriptions are not the light and fluffy.
Aside from all that, I thought that this book was very informative. I wasn’t sure what I would get out of this book, but i definitely see that, at least back in the early 2000s, there was a great need for cadavers in the medical field, as I’m sure there is today. I also learned that there are more options that you can choose for your body after death, though some of your requests may be overruled depending on how your remaining family members feel about those requests. Despite what I’ve learned, though, I don’t know that I would be willing to donate my body to science; it’s just not something that I think I could do or potentially force my remaining family to live with.
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Finding somewhere to photograph human cadavers is proving as difficult as it sounds.