The seven ages of death : a forensic pathologist's journey through life / Richard Shepherd.

Forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death. Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Shepherd the opportunity to examine bodies of every age. From old to young, and from murder, to accident, to natural illness, each body has taught him something - about human development, about life's risks, about its owner's life story, about homicide and even about himself. In The Seven Ages of Death, Shepherd helps readers to recognise death as part of an immense, natural life cycle which is common to all living things - an ending as much a part of us as our beginning.