Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

By: Mary Roach

Published September 26th 2006 by W.W. Norton & Company (NYC) (first published 2005)

Category: Arts

Pages: 311 pages

ISBN: 9780393329124

Description:
"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.