has done with the uses of cadavers. I believe she wrote this book in a pursuit to try and show the more positive connotation of a cadaver that most people don't think about. The novel uses a descriptive way to explain how anatomy students and scientists used cadavers in the past and how they use them today. She also tried to lighten the mood of it all with jokes and make it not seem as bad. Not joking about the dead of course, but saying things like, "The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far