By Mary Roach
Surgery practice.
The Body Farm.
Embalming practice.
Crash tests.
Transplants.
Food.
It’s not the most appetizing collection of eventual ends to which one’s body could be put, but then (as Roach points out) none of the alternatives are all that wonderful. This book deserves its good reviews — Roach is curious and funny but accurate and always respectful. And she footnotes, which I always enjoy, being geeky that way.
Still, probably not the best read if you’re easily grossed out.
(This seems like an appropriate book to end the whole book blogging month with, but hmm, the “Search Inside” on that one is a bit disconcerting…)