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.Mary Roach
Being dead is easy. It's getting dead that's hard.Mary Roach
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. But here are forty of them, one per pan, resting face-up on what appears to be a small pet-food bowl.Mary Roach
To the good we seem evil. To the evil we seem good. This is how the world continues, with nobody being a loser and nobody being a saint.Mary Roach
Cadavers are our superheroes. They brave fire without flinching, withstand falls from tall buildings and head-on car crashes into walls. You can fire a gun at them or run a speedboat over their legs, and it will not faze them. Their heads can be removed with no deleterious effect. They can be in six places at once.Mary Roach
You can learn a lot from the dead, and the dead, being dead, don’t care.Mary Roach
Footnote: Cadavers can't expecto patronum. Cadavers can't emote. I can.Mary Roach
Currently, some 2.5 million people die in the U.S. each year, and 2.3 million of them are cremated, buried, or donated to medical schools. The remaining 200,000? Well, let's just say you don't want to die with no ID and no next of kin.Mary Roach
Death is democracy. It is not negotiable, it is inevitable.Mary Roach
You can reverse the process of death, not indefinitely, but long enough for it to become a nuisance.Mary Roach
The thing about being no longer alive is that you hope it’s not the end of the line.Mary Roach