“If you don’t have a pair of cadaver shoes, you’re not doing enough research.” — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“How is it that men create such lovely silhouettes, such shadows of the corporeal, capturing things in their most wraith-like moment and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I agree with Dr. Makris. Does that mean I would let someone blow up my dead foot to help save the feet… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Humanitarian Benefits of Cadaver Research on Injury Prevention,” Albert King calculated that vehicle safety improvements that have come about as a result… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“For me, hands are hard." She looks up from what she's doing. "Because you're holding this disconnected hand, and it's holding you… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Of course, the cadavers, in life, donated themselves freely to this fate, and the language surrounding the bodies in front of us… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image