{"product_id":"9781324036043","title":"Six Feet Over","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers\u003c\/i\u003e now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.\r\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's thatthe 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. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of \"ectoplasm\" in a Cambridge University archive.","brand":"Mary Roach","offers":[{"title":"WW Norton |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2022-10-25","offer_id":44151989829887,"sku":"9781324036043","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7c997e57-c1b6-403d-b939-ec1c8638efc4.jpg?v=1660876767","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781324036043","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}