Posthumous Adventures. What Can Happen to Your Body After Death?

What is life after death? Even though we live in the 21st century, in the era of advanced technologies, we still don’t have an answer to this question. Perhaps the various changes that the bodies of the dead undergo—coded not only by nature, but also prescribed by humans themselves—are that very life. Turns out it can be quite fascinating. Human remains can legally be used in scientific research carried out on so-called “corpse farms.” The body can be turned into “sacred relics”—relics worshiped by believers of many religions, from Christianity to Buddhism. At different times, superstition in Eastern Europe set out to hunt human remains, people who believed in the reality of vampires, as well as grave robbers who sold dug-up corpses to doctors for demonstration dissections. And this book will also introduce listeners to “non-standard” ways of leaving this world, when a human body is turned into fertilizer or subjected to biocremation—dissolved in an alkaline hydrolysis apparatus.

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