I loved Mary Roach's last book "Stiff" about what happens when you donate your body to science so when I heard she had a new book out examining life after death I rushed out to buy it.
I just started it last night and it does not dissappoint.
From the Introduction:
Quote:Flawed as it is, science remains the most solid god I've got. And so I decided to turn to it, to see what it has to say on the topic of life after death. Because I know what religion says, and it perplexes me. It doesn't deliver a single, coherent, scientifically sensible or provable scenario. Religion says that your soul goes to heaven or possibly to a seven-tiered garden or that your soul is reincarnated into a new body, or that you lie around in your coffin clothes until the Second Coming. And, of course, only one of these can be true. Which means that for millions of people, religion will turn out to have been a bum steer as regards the hereafter. Science seemed the better bet.
Any spelling errors are due to my bad typing -- I typed it in hoping to hook you into reading reading it along with me so that I'd have someone to discuss it with.
Anybody?
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