Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)

That's funny. Traumatic for her, but funny.

It’s a fair bit more common than you might assume. This article talks about 6 of such “body farms” in the USA.

They are focussed on learning about decomposition in different settings, such as being wrapped in plastic, carpet, in a car’s trunk etc.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/06/10/th...

Someone that runs a funeral home wouldn't have an issue. They are the ones that cut up a body, that is donated to science, and ship parts around to buyers. Most institutions only want part of a body for testing and studying so a whole body is worth less than a cut up body.

Now does the post-mortal movement still occur in body parts versus the whole body?

I love how 60s SF authors were absolutely certain that psychic powers were going to be unlocked.

Lem and Dick are such precious peas in a pod!

Too bad Dick reported to the FBI that Lem was a faceless composite communist committee out to get him and brainwash the youth of America and undermine American SF with "crude, insulting and downright ignorant attacks", while Lem asymmetrically thought all science fiction writers were charlatans except for Philip K Dick.

https://english.lem.pl/faq#P.K.Dick

https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is...

Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) (depauw.edu) 140 points by pmoriarty on June 19, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 51 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17349026

https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm

>In 1973, Lem became an honorary member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, a gesture of ‘international goodwill’ on the association’s part. However, in 1976, 70 percent of the SFWA’s voted in favour of a resolution to revoke Lem’s membership. A very quick dismissal for such a prestigious author, but the reasons for his quick ejection from the organisation are clear – he didn’t seem to regard his honorary membership as any sort of honour. He considered American science fiction ‘ill thought out, poorly written, and interested more in adventure that ideas or new literary forms’ and ‘bad writing tacked together with wooden dialogue’, and these are just a few examples of Lem’s deprecatory attitude towards the US branch of his genre.

>Lem, however, considered one science fiction author as exempt from his scathing criticisms – his denouncer, Philip K. Dick. The title of an essay Lem published about Dick is evidence enough of this high regard: A Visionary Among the Charlatans. The essay itself waxes lyrical on Dick’s many excellent qualities as a writer, and expounds upon the dire state of US sci-fi. Lem considered Dick to be the only writer exempt from his cynical view of American SF. It seems likely that Dick was unaware of Lem’s high opinion of him and that he took Lem’s disparaging comments personally, stating in his letter to the FBI:

>"Lem’s creative abilities now appear to have been overrated and Lem’s crude, insulting and downright ignorant attacks on American science fiction and American science fiction writers went too far too fast and alienated everyone but the Party faithful (I am one of those highly alienated)."

According to Wikipedia, no.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_ranks_of_the_United_K...

There were ranks of Lieutenant and Detective Lieutenant, but only in Scotland and only until about 1950.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard

I think the English translation is The Chain of Chance. Great book.

"Secret" also meaning "private" may be a distinction in some languages [1], but not in contemporary English.

[1] a well-known example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Apostolic_Archive#%E...

why not just say private location? My house is a private place, but it's not a secret.

The expectation that the majestiy of death respects the dignity of humans?

(Or too many bad movies and a society that tries to banish the fought of death, instead of accepting it as part of the natural cycle. Also, corpes are usually filled up to the top with formaldehyd.)

I was choking. I realized I was likely going to die, and I was very disappointed. My vision started to go fade even though my eyes were open. I saw vignettes of my life appear coming from the left, then playing like a video in front of my vision, then fading and going to the right, as the next vignette appeared. I was not scared so much as disappointed. The whole thing lasted somewhere between 30 and 60 seconds, at which point I snapped out of it, and grabbed some stranger's soda and poured it down my throat, which dislodged the food I was choking on.

The poster you're replying to said "I never heard of NDEs" for the exact reason you are mis-correcting: to show that they were NOT simply regurgitating a cultural stereotype, but that it is in fact a real phenomenon.

Here's a tip for the Internet and for Real Life: Assume the most charitable interpretation when conversing with someone, not the least. It is more often correct, and it doesn't make you needlessly look like an asshole.

If it was a steak through the heart, then maybe.

Increases probability of fork and knife.

I actually loved that movie (though dated even when I saw it) and have been hoping someone would remake it. Bill Pullman was great though