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What happens when we die? Does the light just venture out and thats that?the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? Exactly what will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a destination to plug in my laptop?So that they can find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of modern day and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all aiming to prove (or disprove) that life continues on directly after we die. She starts the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and results in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near to the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. On the way, she enrolls within an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with an idea to weigh the consciousness of your leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of ectoplasm in a Cambridge University archive.
