Author: Mary Roach
Translator: Kook-sung Kwon
Publisher: ParaBooks
H/C | 223*152mm
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About This Book
The best-selling author of "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" now
trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that?the
million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What
will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my
lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to
bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists,
schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes
on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation
researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where
cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body
near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school,
gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke
University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her
historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through
cadavers and calves' heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal
precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a
Cambridge University archive.
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