| Do you know why cadavers look swollen after they | | | | serve it as soup for the mother in laws when they |
| rot? That is thanks to all those little flesh eating | | | | fall ill. |
| creatures we call maggots and bacteria. They too | | | | THOSE are some of the stuffs you'll learn from Stiff, |
| have secretion system. The only different is, when | | | | The Curious Life of Human Cadaver. |
| we die, our muscle stops working (d'oh!) thus OUR | | | | It's been around for quite sometimes, so I was late |
| secretion system fail to dispose any garbage within | | | | reading it. |
| our body. Voila! We become their toilet. | | | | The writer's style is totally cool and funny. If you |
| Have you seen Wizard of Oz? One of the characters | | | | think you'll be reading a boring texbook-like book, |
| "melts" when she dies. That's what happens to | | | | you're absolutely wrong. I giggle while reading it. And |
| cadavers too. They simply melt after awhile. | | | | for that, I earn a name of "Girl with weird taste of |
| Human is supposedly still alive even after the bodies | | | | books." |
| are separated from their heads, they will stay alert | | | | It is written by Mary Roach a columnist in among |
| and aware of their surroundings, and most probably | | | | others Vogue and GQ magazines. |
| still able to feel pain. | | | | Drop by to the excerpts page for some quick peek. |
| There's and old tradition in China that daughter in | | | | Totally recommended!! As long as you don't get |
| laws should show their respect to their mother in | | | | nauseous easily. |
| laws, by providing some of their own meat and | | | | |