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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Read between August 1 - August 18, 2017
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Death makes us helplessly polite.
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It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.