Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
What is the theme in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach?
![](https://d22o6al7s0pvzr.cloudfront.net/images/bookrags/qa/avatars/School/Stack_of_Books.png)
Asked by
bookragstutor
Last updated by
Cat
Death is inevitable. A cadaver or "stiff" represents death or the eventual fate of all humankind. The idea is so fundamental to the human experience that it necessarily invokes a personal response in the reader. Implicit in every passage is the realization that every human being will eventually be "it" or the cadaver, the decaying remains of what once was a human being. This experience is something that reader brings to the text before the book is opened.