Book review: STIFF by Mary Roach

Summary:

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a nonfiction book about the amazing adventures of dead people. No, not brain-eating zombies, but ordinary cadavers, like you and me (someday). This unusual journalistic endeavor takes a light-hearted though unavoidably gory trip through the myriad ways a corpse can make the transition from flesh into dust. Chapters cover topics such as: practicing surgery on the dead; body snatching; human decay; human crash test dummies; organ tra...