In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.
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… - Mary Roach
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…
- Mary Roach
In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more y… - Mary Roach
In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more y…
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… - Mary Roach
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…
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… - Mary Roach
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…
You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place. - Mary Roach
You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.
I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see. - Mary Roach
I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.
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… - Mary Roach
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…
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… - Mary Roach
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…
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is. - Mary Roach
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
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