The book is called Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach. Why choose this book? One reason for choosing this book is that death is very scary but also interesting. Everyone always is afraid of death of course that when it is in front of everyone what will they do? Some people will run away or get scared. Some will be the brave or just surgeons. Surgeons almost every day have to deal with many people but some are surgeons for cadavers. After reading the book it wants to show how death can also be funny depending on the person. Or the book may just creep people out and look at the Author very weird but it is all for science! A quote from Entertainment Weekly “One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year…. Gross,
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This is one reason why Mary wants to study human anatomy. When she first started visiting universities and watching cadavers being cut and examined it was horrifying. Mary started talking to some of the surgeons and asked them how do they do what they do. One surgeon told her “It is hard to cope with so I like to think of them like wax heads.” Still it isn’t easy but as Mary goes to different universities she learns why some people do. Some of the people are scientist themselves that donate their own bodies after working with cadavers. This can advance our knowledge on our bodies and find out many things from it. If a cadaver is still fresh surgeons can remove their organs and transplant it to a living person. It also helps with forensic research and a lot of more things. After realizing why people do this and how humans can benefit from all of this. Mary starts supporting our use of cadavers at least for educational purposes.
The theme of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach is a very hard but easy at the same time. “ The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers. was to describe the uses for human bodies after life. Another major theme was the acceptance of death, and the idea of a body being nothing more than tissue after it no longer breathes” (Transcript of
This is one reason why Mary wants to study human anatomy. When she first started visiting universities and watching cadavers being cut and examined it was horrifying. Mary started talking to some of the surgeons and asked them how do they do what they do. One surgeon told her “It is hard to cope with so I like to think of them like wax heads.” Still it isn’t easy but as Mary goes to different universities she learns why some people do. Some of the people are scientist themselves that donate their own bodies after working with cadavers. This can advance our knowledge on our bodies and find out many things from it. If a cadaver is still fresh surgeons can remove their organs and transplant it to a living person. It also helps with forensic research and a lot of more things. After realizing why people do this and how humans can benefit from all of this. Mary starts supporting our use of cadavers at least for educational purposes.
The theme of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach is a very hard but easy at the same time. “ The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers. was to describe the uses for human bodies after life. Another major theme was the acceptance of death, and the idea of a body being nothing more than tissue after it no longer breathes” (Transcript of