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. 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. The Kudoa septemlineata on her flounder the Camallanus worm to her plecostomus. If Mary Roach is the bottom feeder of non-fiction, then I am the parasite that feeds on the bottom feeder. 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. Spook Quotes Showing 1-30 of 30 In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. Gulp, Bonk, Stiff, Spook and Grunt By Diane Olson The curious world of Mary Roach. "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.
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