PRECIS:
The earlier part of my book starts out with my personal experiences with the cavader, the experience with my mothers body and the way that I initially feel about them. Death shouldn’t be limited to cremation and funerals. As the book progresses it talks about other topics, and things that happen to dead bodies. Such as the decay of the body, using the body for dissection and donating different parts of the body. The beginning part of the book starts to cover different ways of handling bodies, the idea of surgery, the decay and crimes like body snatching.
QUOTES:
"In a lovely silver of poetic justice, Burke's corpse was, in keeping with the law of the day, dissected"
"If the trend continues, medicine may find itself with something unimaginable two centuries ago: a surplus of cadavers."
"Let me tell you about my first cadaver. I was thirty-six, and it was eighty-one."
"All were strangers to me. I would not want to watch an experiment, no matter how interesting or important, that involved the remains of someone I knew and loved."
"Death. It doesn't have to be boring."
PARAGRAPH:
The most interesting part of the opening part of the book is the very beginning during the introduction. Usually I don’t read the introduction of anything because they never really told me much and I would rather be reading about the actual story behind the book. I got tricked into reading it thinking it was the start of the book. The idea that the author comes up with during the very first few pages is death is done differently, and could be done in a better way if there weren’t only funerals and cremations. I guess this is the thesis of the book, considering that the author goes on to talk about the decay of a body and dissection of dead bodies. Both things that I have never read about and the dissection of dead bodies being something I have never heard about. This book seems a lot more interesting compared to the other books read during this course because there are less stories packed with statistics and constant citations. However it gives the reader more of an connection with the actual story.
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