Recs if you like Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales...
Death Positivity
Death will unfailingly find every person to have ever lived, yet is treated as a taboo topic in some cultures, causing extreme, pervasive anxiety. This nonfiction list aims to broaden understanding of this inevitability, both to hopefully negate some of the anxiety as well as satisfy some of our more morbid curiosities. It also aims to show that death is another, still useful, stage in the life cycle, aiding those that remain by helping to advance medicine, solve crimes, or understand art.
so you want to know about dead bodies
how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between
Weirdly Specific Nonfiction
Nonfiction on a single, weirdly specific topic
the many faces of forensics
nonfiction works on the history and modern day applications of forensic science
examples: forensic anthropology forensic biology forensic ecology forensic entomology forensic medicine forensic pathology forensic psychology
Morbid & Macabre
Inspired by the Morbidly Curious Book Club, these are nonfiction books that tackle topics often treated as taboo or seen as too grim and grisly to discuss.
did you know...
no? well, now you do Books about [niche subject] or [not so niche subject] that spam from the mysterious and the macabre to the weird and unsettling to just interesting and fun
