Analysis Of Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers By Mary Roach

What happens when humans die? Death is an unavoidable part of living that everyone will someday have to face head on. In the case of some, they live their lives to take care of themselves then spend their afterlife finding ways to take care of others. They become cadavers, a dead body who is sent to labs as a way to study diseases or to teach medical students how to help the living. These bodies may be used for anything from trying to find a cure for cancer to teaching medical students the ends and outs of performing a face lift. The historical and scientific evidence in the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach is book that has received many good reviews and draws into the great impact cadavers have had on our culture

I felt I would enjoy reading about the human body and being able to understand it a little better this year after my anatomy and physiology class than I would have previously. I was expecting the book to be mostly fact based, closer to reading a text book; however, I was surprised to walk away with not only a new knowledge of the science surrounding the mystery of death but also the human emotion. Not only did I get to hear the thoughts and feelings of Mary Roach on everything, but I also got to hear all of the thoughts and feelings of the people she met along the way. It was interesting getting to hear the different viewpoints between an anatomy student who was training to become a doctor, their professor, or even another anatomy student training to become a coroner. Everyone seems to have equal respect for the dead, but they all show it in different ways. The book left me feeling something rather than just knowing information. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach helps you look at something, as dark and inevitable as death, and smile a little because life does indeed go on after