Short Stories: Stories from Stiff by Mary Roach

This is a Short Story "Book" Club that focuses on sci fi/fantasy and horror short stories or novelettes. This month, choose a story or two from Mary Roach's Stiff.
There is currently a free online link to the book (let me know if that changes).
Links to the stories: https://goodmaisha.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mary-roach-stiff-the-curious-lives-of-human-cadavers.pdf

"For 2,000 years, cadavers -- some willingly, some unwittingly -- have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem."

About Mary Roach: Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF, SPOOK, BONK, GULP, GRUNT, FUZZ, and PACKING FOR MARS. Her new book, REPLACEABLE YOU: Adventures in Human Anatomy, debuts in September 2025. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, and The New York Times Magazine, among others, and her TED talk made the TED 20 Most Watched list. She has been a guest editor for Best American Science and Nature Writing, a finalist for the Royal Society's Winton Prize, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' journalism award, in a category for which, let's be honest, she was the sole entrant. [More at www.maryroach.net](http://www.maryroach.net)