Mary Roach Quote

Remember one of my teammates was just hacking him apart, digging something out, one girl told me, and I realized I was patting his arm, going, ‘It’s okay, it’s okay.’ I asked a student named Matthew whether he would miss his cadaver when the course ended, and he replied that it was actually sad when just part of him left. (Halfway through the course, the legs are removed and incinerated to reduce the students’ exposure to the chemical preservatives.)

Mary Roach

Remember one of my teammates was just hacking him apart, digging something out, one girl told me, and I realized I was patting his arm, going, ‘It’s okay, it’s okay.’ I asked a student named Matthew whether he would miss his cadaver when the course ended, and he replied that it was actually sad when just part of him left. (Halfway through the course, the legs are removed and incinerated to reduce the students’ exposure to the chemical preservatives.)

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About Mary Roach

Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published seven New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021).