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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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And you thought death was depressing---
Mary Roach did her homework, and it shows. She has written and information packed, insightful, educational, respectful, and, yes, funny book on what happens to these bodies of ours when we get tired of hanging out in them. I have a newfound respect for all who have donated their bodies in the name of science. Not that I give it a lot of thought, but I figured cremation would be the most logical choice. After reading this book, heck, they can do whatever they want with me. I've always felt an obligation to help others, and if I can continue to do so after I have left this world, then HOORAY.Meanwhile, expect some odd looks when you are sitting there reading a book obviously about the dearly departed, and you started sputtering, and can't help but laugh out loud! Quirky humour, but that's my favorite kind. Thank you, Mary Roach.I recommend this book to anyone in healthcare, or the clergy, or anyone even dealing with people who experience loss. It gives you a new...
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July 24, 2003 (Temple, TX USA) | Helpful Votes: 51 | Rating: 5

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"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly

Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.

In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries—from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. Top to learn more

Death is not the end
This is a book about dead bodies. As Mary Roach demonstrates in her new book, some bodies go on to do remarkable things, such as helping FAA investigators understand why a plane crashed or helping auto-makers design safety features that save thousands of lives. Others are asked to do nothing more than rot away quietly at a research lab where forensic scientists study decomposition in order to improve crime scene investigation techniques. Some are put to slightly more questionable uses, such as the severed heads used by plastic surgeons to practice their facelift technique (surely not what people had in mind when they donated their bodies to science). Others have had even more bizarre adventures. Cadavers have been nailed to a cross in order to prove the authenticity of the shroud of Turin. Severed heads have been poked, prodded, and given transfusions in an attempt to revive them long after they and their bodies have parted ways.The anonymous cadavers that are the subjects of STIFF...
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May 20, 2003 (Louisville, KY USA) | Helpful Votes: 192 | Rating: 4

Good Book with Some New Perspectives on Death
First, Mary Roach has a terrific sense of humor. She takes a challenging subject and finds ways to make you laugh just when you need it. Her humor is irreverent, but never disrespectful. She can laugh at some of the absurdity, yet still appreciate the pain dying can bring.This is well written, well researched, and thorough. My one, very minor complaint is with the organization of the book. I feel as though it starts much more strongly than it finishes. So, for example, she might have considered organizing the chapters differently.I don't think you need a particularly strong stomach to read this book. Only one item actually turned my stomach. But when it did, it *really* did.The book succeeded in making me think about my own death. It also made me think about my mother's death and made it easier to accept certain events. ...I hope this book will make you laugh and then think too.
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April 27, 2003 (Costa Mesa, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 122 | Rating: 4

After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver

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What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? Legal scholar Norman Cantor provides a graphic, informative, and entertaining exploration of these questions. After We Die chronicles not only a corpse's physical state but also its legal and moral status, including what rights, if any, the corpse possesses.

In a claim sure to be controversial, Cantor argues that a corpse maintains a "quasi-human status" granting it certain protected rights -- both legal and moral. One of a corpse's purported rights is to have its predecessor's disposal choices upheld. After We Die reviews unconventional ways in which a person can extend a personal legacy via their corpse's role in medical education, scientific research, or tissue transplantation. This underlines the importance of leaving instructions directing post-mortem disposal. Another cadaveric right is to be treated with respect and dignity. After We Die outlines the limits that "post-mortem human dignity" poses upon disposal options, particularly the use of a cadaver or its parts in educational or artistic displays.

Contemporary illustrations of these complex issues abound. In 2007, the well-publicized death of Anna Nicole Smith highlighted the passions and disputes surrounding the handling of human remains. Similarly, following the 2003 death of baseball great Ted Williams, the family in-fighting and legal proceedings surrounding the corpse's proposed cryogenic disposal also raised contentious questions about the physical, legal, and ethical issues that emerge after we die. In the tradition of Sherwin Nuland's How We Die, Cantor carefully and sensitively addresses the post-mortem handling of human remains.

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A really good read!
I am at a loss as to the previous reviewer's negativity. - this was a really good read - funny, interesting, at times compelling. I didn't read it as a textbook; I read it as the informative, interesting book that it is. I recommend it because this is a topic that is usually found in scholarly, dry tomes and rarely discussed in public. Yet it is a topic that certainly affects us in a myriad of ways, as the author adroitly points out, from providing medical hospitals with a most needed teaching tool, allowing researchers to advance their own forensic knowledge, and adding to our knowledge of history, to name just a few. It whetted my appetite and expanded my knowledge base AND was amusing. A really good read!!!
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May 9, 2011 (Hinesburg, VT United States) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

Great book, interesting reading
This is not a legal text, nor is it comprehensive or complete. But it is entertaining & interesting reading, and touches on a variety of issues that you may not have previously considered. The book is respectful, not comical. I could hardly put it down. I learned about it in a review in Columbia University (alumni) magazine, which recommended it.
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November 20, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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July 24, 2003 (Temple, TX USA) | Helpful Votes: 51 | Rating: 5

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"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly

May 20, 2003 (Louisville, KY USA) | Helpful Votes: 192 | Rating: 4

April 27, 2003 (Costa Mesa, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 122 | Rating: 4

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Death: Corpses, Cadavers, and Other Grave Matters (Discovery!)

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Everyone dies . . . but what happens inside the human body when death occurs? What body systems are key for holding on to life? And what value does studying death have for those of us still living? Explore all of the answers with a forensic scientist who takes a look at the body's interconnected cellular systems and the links between life and death. Top to learn more

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Necrosis

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NECRO AS F$#K ! ! !
Cadaver return to their roots with 35 mindbending minutes of necro death-thrash hell!!! On Necrosis, the band forgoes the perpetual brutal turbo speed and black metal leanings of "Discipline" in favor of a more diverse and "old-school" approach. There are plenty of warp speed drum patterns and ultra dischordant guitar velocities, so all you speed freaks not worry! Although firmly rooted in the extremity of the early 90's, "Necrosis" is fully overwraught with a dynamic and aggressive originality.
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June 28, 2004 (San Diego, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

KILLER!!!! JUST KILLER!!!!
Damn. This album kicks (...). I have been a fan of Cadaver ever since I picked up their debut album "Hallucinating Anxiety" back in the mid 90s. "Necrosis" hearkens back to that first album. Plenty of speed/death riffs and abstract dissonant chords. The drumming is exceptionally good as are the sick old style death/black vocals. I just found out that Cadaver has broken up. Why??!! Why the hell do these great musicians record a superb album like this and then just quit on us? It doesnt make any sense. This is one of the best Deathmetal albums in the last 10 years and I cannot understand why they would break up! At least they went out with a bang. Buy this album and bash your face into a brick wall.
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September 24, 2004 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

I haven't heard this yet,,,
so this obviously isn't a review. I just thought I'd say that this band's breakup probably has something to do with Carl Michael Eide, the drummer, falling off a 5-story building a few months back. He was also the drummer for Dodheimsgard and the frontman for Ved Buens Ende and Virus. I hear he is now walking with a cane. I don't know if this is true but if so, it's good news since doctors weren't sure he'd ever walk again at first. Anyway, why did this band change their name back from Cadaver Inc. to just Cadaver? confusing!P.S. if you haven't heard 666 International, Carheart, and Written in Waters you need a edumacation!!!
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August 27, 2005 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 3

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Informed and informative
"Excellent Cadavers" is how the bodies of Mafia-assassinated prosecutors, judges, and other members of Italian and Sicilian society were referred to when the judicial killings began in the 1970s. Based upon the book by Italian-American author Alexander Stille and drawing upon the work of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, this superbly produced and presented 92 minute documentary chronicles the efforts of two courageous Italian prosecutors whose work in the 1980s to expose and imprison the leadership and the membership of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra ultimately led to the 'Maxi-Trials' held in Palermo in a heavily-protected underground bunker the size of a football filed where hundreds of Mafia defendants, ranging from street soldiers to Dons, were tried and convicted. "Excellent Cadavers" is an informed and informative, making it 'must viewing' for academicians, criminologists, and the general public with an interest in organized crime generally, and the Sicilian Cosa Nostra in...
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March 3, 2008 (Oregon, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 5

The real Mafia
It's not Hollywood. The truth is ugly, brutal and unromantic. The judges who fought the Corleonese were tough and determined to end the control of the mob. They not only had to fight hundreds of years of tradition and intimidation, but also corruption at the very top of the Italian Political system. Andreotti and Berlusconi be damned. A very well documented treatise on bravery.
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November 28, 2010 (San Diego, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4

I WOULD GIVE IT FIVE STARS IF IT WERE NOT...
... if it were not for the man (Alexander Stille I presume) who keeps walking in and out of the screen when you least expect it. He wrote the book, that is fine! but does he have to spoil the landscape too? I find him extremely irritating.
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June 19, 2011 (Michigan) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian Cadaver is a book on Inspector Singh who is a connoisseur of investigation in his agency. The book is a thunderous ride through the various corners of the mind of Mr. Singh and his co-workers, thus to be able to grasp the authentic vibe of the book you have to just let yourself go and soak in the flavor of the book in all its... Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian Cadaver is a book that will dawn upon your interests, and will make you get deep inside the case that surrounds him and his family. The wedding revelers find themselves within a state of shock as they encounter a wedding with the bride nowhere to be found, there are many predictions and assumptions but Inspector Singh surely knows better than that as he sets out to investigate... The best possible way for Mr. Singh to go about the case is to drop off his family links and approach it with the intention of resolving the case completely.

SANTA ANA - Orange police today will use cadaver dogs in an attempt to find the bodies of a toddler boy and his baby brother, who are believed to have killed by their father in their apartment in Orange, along with their mother. Shazer Fernando Limas, 31, was charged on Monday with three counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of 31-year-old Arlet Hernandez Contreras, whose body was found April 25 in La Puente and their sons, 2-year-old Fernando and 4- month-old Emmanuel. "We will be searching the (Brea) landfill today with two cadaver dogs being lent to us by the Ventura County Sheriff's Department," Orange police Sgt. "The area that's used for garbage from the apartment complex where they (Limas and victims) were living covers an area about the size of a football field. He also went to a Home Depot to buy a tarp on April 24, then he moved out of the apartment, prosecutors said. " Contreras' remains were unidentified at the Los Angeles County coroner's office until late last week when Orange police called to see if there were any anonymous stabbing victims, Adams said. "We've also used the dogs at the apartment where they were living but we've turned up nothing there," Adams said. "Our two investigators will be using the dogs in a grid search," Adams said. " The mother's body was found April 25, but she was probably killed about two weeks before that, police said. " This will be the third day of searching at the landfill, Adams said.

If possible keep a separate portable suction etc in your vehicle along with the instruments and dissect, dissect, dissect. i would rather buy the 0, 30, 45, 70 degree with an extra 0 degree endoscope and wont mind taking just a few more mins in the surgery while changing the. Dr Sarvejeet Singh The best part of being an ENT is that almost every procedure can be learnt by Cadaver Dissection. Cultivate (. bribe) some mortuary fellows, medical officers etc and dissect on fresh cadavers. Some of the most pioneering approaches in ENT were (and indeed still are) first conceived, honed and practiced on cadavers.

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A cactus whose spines leap to impale you, a vine whose shiny berries can send you into a coma, a gorgeous flower that smells like a ripe cadaver, a houseplant that will kill your cat: who knew plants were so scary and dangerous?