Blog Eleven

I started a novel called Stiff by Mary Roach. I bought the book at an airport one day when I was off to Florida! I thought it would be an interesting book to get into. There were a couple reasons of why i chose this one. First of all, the front cover looked intreguing, with the bottom of the feet showing and a sub title of The curious lives of human cadavers.... This leads to my second reason, i love this kind of stuff, dealing with bodies (dead or alive i suppose), and medical issues or stories. It is also a new york times bestseller... so it really must be good. The first page has already caught my attention with this line..."The way i see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your tme is spent lying on your back." This could be taken differently for different folks, but the way i see it is that it's comparing and saying that a ship is just a lifeless transportation. Now because no one knows what it is like when you're gone, until you actually die, this could mean many different ideas. I feel like heaven or hell, wherever you end up, could be like another life... and what i mean by that is, it could be crazy and moving and lots of camotion. The way that the author describes it as though is a dead person just lying there, on your back. Yes, that is what the human eye sees when they see a dead person/cadaver. but we will never know what is going on inside that person, or where the soul takes you. All in all, i wouldn't neccessarily compare a dead person to a ship who just lies on their back.