The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never be….

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate….

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emer….

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more y….

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut d….

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human hea….

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I i….

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see..

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place..

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is..

The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, list….

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of….

Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people across from you on sub….

People are vomiting unrealistically in movies, and something must be done about it..

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between..

It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixtee….

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the begin….

You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.….

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanz….

Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to..

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer..