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Take my advice: don't read this book on an airplane. For two reasons. First, you will spew beverage all over your seatmates every three minutes as you try in vain to suppress rowdy eruptions of uncontrollable laughter and gurgling nose noises; and upon gleaning from the shocking photo on the cover that this book you find so damn funny is about human cadavers for heavens sake, the hapless seatmates will grow suspicious and alarmed at your cavalier hilarity towards death and buzz the flight attendant. And second, there's a riveting chapter about what happens to bodies at the cellular level, forgodsake (!!!) during a plane crash which will make your hair stand straight on end and your knuckles turn white with terror as you grip the wrists of the aforementioned unfortunate seatmates who are by now plotting to surreptitiously shove you out the emergency exit while the flight attendant is off fetching them a dozen or so tiny bottles of scotch. Read it, you know, just not on a plane. Ok?