I remember the first time i saw this book in the bookstore and read the short introduction of it, I became quite interested in it.
"Whether buried, burnt, snatched, donated or decomposed, some people have been more useful dead than alive...
Stiff lifts the lid on exactly what happens to our bodies after we die. In addition to dissecting the ins and outs of decomposition, it unearths the many uses that can be made of a human corpse, from ballistics practice to body farms, crash test dummies to composting, and, in the process, digs up a wealth of ghoulishly compelling detail - from the experiment to weigh the human soul and the history of body-snatching to the true story of the human dumpling."

I finally got down to finish reading the book so many months later and it was really quite interesting.
Each chapter focused on a different aspect of the lives of the dead.. the book was easy to read and insightful. Some bits were amusing, some were sad but I was quite impressed by the amount of research that had gone into collecting information for this book.
I enjoyed it.