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The best-selling author of Stiff  and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
"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.Frequently asked questions
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- ALSO BY MARY ROACH
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. You Again A visit to the reincarnation nation
- 2. The Little Man Inside the Sperm, or Possibly the Big Toe Hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels
- 3. How to Weigh a Soul What happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale
- 4. The Vienna Sausage Affair And other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul
- 5. Hard to Swallow The giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm
- 6. The Large Claims of the Medium Reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab
- 7. Soul in a Dunce Cap The author enrolls in medium school
- 8. Can You Hear Me Now? Telecommunicating with the dead
- 9. Inside the Haunt Box Can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate?
- 10. Listening to Casper A psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England’s haunted spots
- 11. Chaffin v. the Dead Guy in the Overcoat In which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness
- 12. Six Feet Over A computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers
- Last Words
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography