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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

by Mary Roach

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“you just have to keep going and everything will sort itself out.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

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“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves,”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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“Though you may have never attended a funeral, two of the world's humans die every second. Eight in the time it took you to read that sentence. Now we're at fourteen. If this is too abstract, consider this number: 2.5 million. The 2.5 million people who die in the United States every year.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

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“Even if all we love will die, I still ached for a love like theirs, to be adored so completely. Had not Disney guaranteed all of us such an ending?”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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“People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.”
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