| Genres : | Humor , Non-Fiction , Science , Health , Medical |
| Published By : | W. W. Norton Company |
| ISBN : | 0393324826 (ISBN13: 9780393324822) |
| Format : | Paperback |
| Language : | English |
| No. of pages : | 303 |
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“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”
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“It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.”
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“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
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“The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.”
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“You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.”
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