Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Stiff Questions

Are your parents going to donate their body to science?

How do you feel about donating your body to science after reading this book, do you find yourself disgusted, amazed,etc? Are u ging to donate yor body to science?

STIFF chunk #3

In the next 55 pages of Mary Roach's Stiff she describes to herself the diffrent ways of the uses of human cadavers and their "exeptfullness" or "usefullness" of how they can be used or how they are being used to advance our reasearch and how they come to help human society. Mary Roach gives us examples and details to give us thoughts and give ourselves questions to make us belive if we shold be able to donate our own bodies to science. She lets us have a train of thought. it makes me think, "if I donate my body to science than i am "helping" man kind or if i donate my body i am just letting them "abuse" my body becuase we dont "feel" pain as Mary roach said in chapter 4 Dead Man Driving , "there is oen thing dead people do excel at, there very good at handling pain. Mary Roach makes herself have these thoughts, becuase of what she has seen science "capable" of.