Six feet over : science tackles the afterlife
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
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9781324036043, 1324036044
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
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Book
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309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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9781324036043, 1324036044

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Previously published as "Spook"--Cover.
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Formerly published as "Spook".
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Includes reading group guide.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-309).
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"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, the author brings her 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. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a 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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Roach, M. (2022). Six feet over: science tackles the afterlife . W.W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Roach, Mary. 2022. Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife. W.W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Roach, Mary. Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Roach, Mary. Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.

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