Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Death makes us helplessly polite.
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We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
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how, exactly, to define death, to pinpoint the precise moment when the spirit—the soul, the chi, whatever you wish to call it—has ceased to exist and all that remains is a corpse.
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life and death is not a binary system.” It’s a continuum.