The book has been since 2008 on my wish list, before I acquired it about a year ago.
Registered in Paris, France.

Backcovertext:

Whether buried, burnt, snatched, donated or decomposed, some people have been more useful dead than alive…
Stiff lifts the lid on exactly what happens to our bodies after we die. In addition to dissecting the ins and outs of decomposition, it unearths the many uses that can be made of a human corpse, from ballistics practice to body farms, crash test dummies to composting, and, in the process, digs ups wealth of ghoulishly compelling detail - from the experiment to weigh the human soul and the history of body-snatching to the true story of the human dumpling.

A very curious book, with lots of interesting tidbits, sometimes a little bit gloomy or disgusting - mostly when it’s not about the cadaver yet, but still about the dying. I laughed more than I felt disgusted though. However, there were some US American cultural references that left me perplexed.

Passed on to R.