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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 33% (page 96)

    So read my pages of the day and where I left off she was talking about seat belts. She doesn't talk about body sizes and the fact that it is mostly if not all male cadavers used. Nothing to even acknowledge this issue.🤨

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 33% (page 96)

    So read my pages of the day and where I left off she was talking about seat belts. She doesn't talk about body sizes and the fact that it is mostly if not all male cadavers used. Nothing to even acknowledge this issue.🤨

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 22% (page 65)

    entomologists have a name for young flies, but it is an ugly name, an insult. Let's not use the word "maggot". Let's use a pretty word. Let's use "hacienda"

    What.....🙄🙄🙄🙄

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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    entomologists have a name for young flies, but it is an ugly name, an insult. Let's not use the word "maggot". Let's use a pretty word. Let's use "hacienda"

    What.....🙄🙄🙄🙄

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 18% (page 52)

    She talks about teeth being used for dentures and skin made into wallets...but still no acknowledgment of Black enslaved folks who'd most likely have been used for this. She uses a white person (not any better mind you) as an example but no acknowledgement or discussion further into this. The teeth part would have been perfect time to mention whose teeth Washington had!!!

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 13% (page 38)

    Others must feel the same; there isn't an anyhydrous lacrimal glad in the house ugh I think I am turning hyper critical here but come ooon

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 8% (page 24)

    So in the introduction she acknowledges gender reassignment surgeries.

    But in this section, she is talking about her time observing surgeons using heads to practice their skills when it comes to plastic surgeries. She says that although she gets that-whatever her own opinion on it-it is better for their surgeons to have the skills, ya know so they don't botch or kill them (this is me). but in the note, she says this:

    I'm a believer in organ and tissue (bone, cartilage, skin) donation but was startled to learn that donated skin that isn't used for, say grafting on burn victims may be process and used cosmetically to plump up wrinkles and aggrandize penises. While I have no preconceived notions of the hereafter, I stand firm in my conviction that it should not take the form of someone else's underpants

    Am I reading too much into this, or is she discounting the fact that people who choose to medically transition would benefit from this??

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 8% (page 24)

    So in the introduction she acknowledges gender reassignment surgeries.

    But in this section, she is talking about her time observing surgeons using heads to practice their skills when it comes to plastic surgeries. She says that although she gets that-whatever her own opinion on it-it is better for their surgeons to have the skills, ya know so they don't botch or kill them (this is me). but in the note, she says this:

    I'm a believer in organ and tissue (bone, cartilage, skin) donation but was startled to learn that donated skin that isn't used for, say grafting on burn victims may be process and used cosmetically to plump up wrinkles and aggrandize penises. While I have no preconceived notions of the hereafter, I stand firm in my conviction that it should not take the form of someone else's underpants

    Am I reading too much into this, or is she discounting the fact that people who choose to medically transition would benefit from this??

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 7% (page 20)

    It surprises me to hear that men and women who spend their days pruning eyelids and vacuuming fat would require anything in the way of soothing... What do you mean? Are they not humans themselves??

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 7% (page 19)

    Why does she always have to compare it good or cooking😭😭

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  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Thoughts from 4% (page 11)

    Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It's just that there are other ways to spend your time as a cadaver. Get involved with science. Be an art exhibit. Become part of a tree. Some options for you to think about. Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

    Thank you but I'd rather it was.🤨

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