Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism (Wellcome Collection)

by Bill Schutt

But, of course, there are also obvious and serious drawbacks to being a cannibal.

hedgehogs.

spiders lack penises.

In 2002, stories began circulating that Keith Richards had mixed his dad’s ashes with some cocaine and snorted them shortly after Bert Richards’s death that year. Not so, replied Keef: …after having Dad’s ashes in a black box for six years, because I really couldn’t bring myself to scatter him to the winds, I finally planted a sturdy English oak to spread him around. And as I took the lid off the box, a fine spray of his ashes blew out onto the table. I couldn’t just brush him off, so I wiped my finger over it and snorted the residue. Ashes to ashes, father to son.