It was in the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers that Mary Roach expressed her opinion and stated facts about how a cadaver is used. In the book Roach wrote, "On a rational level, most people are comfortable with the concept of brain death and organ donation. But on an emotional level, they may have a harder time accepting it” (Roach, 188). The reason that organ donation is difficult for people is because of the fear they have of death and the idea of their souls connecting through transplants
Science Book Report Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach covers the broad topic of cadavers. Instead of focusing on the loss and sadness of death, the book instead talks about how the dead can be used, and how cadavers contribute the the scientific community . This book goes over many interesting topics about cadavers, Roach ventures from the more tolerable subjects such as history and origin of cadavers, to the outright disgusting topics of cannibalistic techniques and rotting
In Mary Roach's novel "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers", she gives a run through of what all happens to cadavers after they have passed away. Mary explains in each chapter experiences and research she 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