Sarah Chikanova’s Reviews > Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers > Status Update

male and female hearts have slightly different heartbeat frequencies and oftentimes organ donors worry they’ll obtain qualities of the donor. some even say they can tell they’re like the donor or have become like them, but in studies 217 people guessed wrong details about their donor in full confidence. one man in particular saying his was from a black woman. it was from an old white guy

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.

so interesting but im moving so slowly through it