Shuffling Off (with) Someone Else’s Mortal Coil: An Interview with Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest In Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

November 6, 2013 · by JS Epstein | in Book Reviews | tagged afterlife, Bess Lovejoy, corpses, death, dying, Einstein's brain, Elvis Presley, Graceland, grave robbers, gravesites, Julia Pastrana, kleptomania, Rasputin's murder, Rest in Pieces, Schott's Almanac, Seattle Public Library | 3 Comments

Five times five years I lived a virgin’s life Nine times five years I lived a virtuous wife; Wearied of this mortal life, I rest. — Headstone inscription, Mrs. Eunice Page, 1888 (Mann 177) Yorick, one of the better known characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, only ever appears on stage as a skull. Andre Tchaikovsky, having […]