What a fascinating book. I am now packed with amazing and gruesome facts and details regarding the adventures my body with have, once I cease to be living in it. Unfortunately, I will not be able to share many of these details, particularly at a dinner party, for fear of putting all the guests off their meals.
But, that’s life (please excuse the pun)! Mary Roach writes simply, often with her tongue firmly set in her cheek, and has clearly done her research. This is not for the squeamish and there where a few passages that I didn’t linger over!
But she has made me think about what service I can lend to society after I am no longer an active member. Already an organ donor, I am now donating my body to Sydney University (if they want me); it seems a terrible waste of resources not to!