What if the aliens don’t need things like bodies? Looking for life as we know it could be a mistake. Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman s1e6: Are We Alone? Science 2010
You may house their bodies but not their souls. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet: ‘On Children’, 1923
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche
If you’ve got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 1869
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edvard Munch
Hold, hold, my heart;
And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
But bear me stiffly up. William Shakespeare, Hamlet I v 92-94
He analysed the architecture of the human body. Da Vinci: The Lost Treasure, BBC 2011
By the mid-1960s he started he paint the whole body ... He showed us the presence of a real body. Lucian Freud: Painted Life, BBC 2012
Pot bellies are sexy. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, director Quentin Tarantino, Fabienne to Butch
What we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye are seldom the same. ibid.
You’re always going to have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently, the best thing to do is cut up the corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you’ve got your six pieces, you got to get rid of them. ’Cause it’s no good leaving it in a deep-freeze for your Mum to discover now, is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You’ve got to starve the pigs for a few days. Then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a piss-head. You’ve got to shave the heads of your victims and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards of course. But you don’t want to go sieving through pig-shit now, do ya? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pound in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pound of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, ‘As greedy as a pig’. Snatch 2000 ***** starring Brad Pitt & Vinnie Jones & Jason Statham & Stephen Graham & Alan Ford & Dennis Farina & Adam Fogerty & Mike Reid & Vinnie Jones et al, Bricktop
The reshaping of the human body by modern technology. Crash 1996 starring James Spader & Deborah Kara Unger & Elias Koteas & Holly Hunter & Rosanna Arquette & Peter MacNeill & Judah Katz & Nicky Guadagni et al, director David Cronenberg
I just think you ought to take care of your body, that’s all. Dog Day Afternoon 1975 starring Al Pacino & John Cazale & Charles Durning & James Broderick & Lance Henriksen & Chris Sarandon & Penelope Allen & Carole Kane et al, director Sidney Lumet, Sal
We have to make that body unidentifiable. Shallow Grave 1994/5 starring Ewan McGregor & Christopher Eccleston & Kerry Fox & Ken Stott & Keith Allen & Colin McCredie & Gary Lewis et al, director Danny Boyle, Alex
Just how would you start to cut up a human body? Rear Window 1954 starring James Stewart & Grace Kelly & Wendell Corey & Thelma Ritter & Raymond Burr & Judith Evelyn & Ross Bagdasarian & Georgine Darcy & Sara Berner & Frank Cady et al, James to Grace
When you see how much your body is worth you’re gonna wish you died years ago. Or something like that. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e25: Body Parts, Rom to Quark
Janeway: So how’s the newest addition to our family?
Doctor: At the moment she is stable. But the prognosis isn’t clear. Her human physiology has begun to reassert itself ... There is a battle being waged inside her body between the biological and the technological. Star Trek: Voyager s4e2: The Gift
What have you done to me? ibid. Seven of Nine to Doctor & Janeway
You couldn’t possibly understand how I feel; you’re organic. You exist apart from your ship. I understand how you feel! You’re the one who is trapped, not me. You spend your entire life stuck inside a biological cage of flesh and bone and blood. You depend on food and water to survive. Frankly, I find it disgusting ... What a repulsive creature you are, constantly shedding your skin and hair ... You are better than no filthy animal ... I am ashamed to be made in your image ... I was treated quite badly by the crew here. Star Trek: Voyager s4e5: Revulsion, Doctor & hologram
You were transported here. Your body was in a state of temporal flux. Star Trek: Voyager s7e11: Shattered, Doctor to Chakotay
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. Marilyn Monroe
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. Marilyn Monroe
The Body in Question was a ground-breaking thirteen-part series about the human body and the history of medicine. Arena: Jonathan Miller, BBC 2012
I am afraid to own a Body –
I am afraid to own a Soul –
Profound – precarious Property –
Possession, not optional – Emily Dickinson
Charles Freed has lost control of his body. A rare virus has ravaged his nervous system leaving him with no sense of touch below the neck. And unable to sense how his limbs are moving. Charles is not paralysed, but he has lost his proprioception, the hidden sixth sense that tells the brain where the body is in space. Horizon: The Man Who Lost His Body, BBC 1997
Do you care what happens to your body after you die? There are a growing number of people who do. Because dead bodies have become big business. A medical revolution has meant that more and more parts of your body can be useful after you are dead. It’s created an insatiable demand for human tissue. But with not enough bodies to go round a lucrative black market has emerged. And there are some people who will do almost anything to get their hands on your body. Horizon: How Much is Your Dead Body Worth? BBC 2008
What happened to Alistair Cooke’s body in the funeral home would become part of a body-snatching scandal that would rock the country. Alistair Cooke was just one of over a thousand people whose bodies were chopped up and sold on. ibid.
Grave-robbing is nothing new. People have been making a living stealing and selling bodies for three hundred years. ibid.
The Burke and Hare case spelled the end of the resurrectionists. In response the Anatomy Act was passed; it gave doctors the right to dissect unclaimed bodies of anyone who couldn’t afford a funeral. ibid.
Why are you more likely to have a heart attack at eight o’clock in the morning? Or crash your car on the motorway at two o’clock in the afternoon? Can taking your medication at the right time of day really save your life? And why should you encourage your teenager to lie in in the morning? The answers to these questions lie in the secret world of the biological clock. Horizon: The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock, BBC 2009
6 a.m. to 8 a.m. It’s the start of the day and for most of us time to get out of bed. But across Britain there’s one group in society who seem to find this much harder than everybody else. Welcome to the world of the teenage zombie and the most dysfunctional of body – clocks. ibid.
8. a.m. to 10 a.m. Beware of injecting these early hours with too much vigour ... First on the danger list is blood pressure. ibid.
10 a.m. to Midday: Shortly after lunch most people will experience a dip in their brain-power. ibid.
For all the wonders of modern medicine there are some things it simply can’t cure. But medical science claims to be on the verge of a revolution, one that could heal our bodies in ways we never imagined before. Horizon: Fix Me, BBC 2010
A fascinating new science that could improve our sleep, lift our mood and even help us fight disease … How the choices we make about our biological clock could improve our health. Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick? BBC 2018
In the hypothalamus a small group of cells tick along with a regular twenty-four-hour rhythm. This biological clock uses nerves and hormones to transmit this rhythm to his internal organs, keeping them in sync and regulating body functions. ibid.
When we’re young kids we tend to be early birds; as teenagers, most of us are serious nightowls, but by our early 20s we settle into our adult patterns … It’s mostly determined by our genes. ibid.
Just one degree of cooling is enough to cause a lot of pain. And another ten would almost certainly kill you. But scientists have found a way to make the cold work for them, learning lessons from accidental events turning this hugely lethal vogue into a useful ally. Dr Kevin Fong, Horizon: Back from the Dead, BBC 2010
Cooling has the potential to revolutionise everything. ibid.