Author(s): Dr Richard Shepherd

Science

Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life... How can death tell us about life? Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard 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.