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It is said that when you fall in love you give someone your heart. After Percy Bysshe Shelley’s body was burned on an Italian beach, The tales tell that his heart survived the cremation and that Mary Shelley carried it with her for the rest of her days – the ultimate romantic gesture. But was it really his heart? This is not the only famous body part to have returned to the living after death. Chunks of Einstein’s brain arrived in California in a mayonnaise jar 28 years after he died, Rabbie Burn’s skull went for a night time wander in the name of a pseudoscience, Dante’s bones played a hokey-cokey around his tomb over several hundred years – not to mention what happened to the unmentionables of Napoleon and Rasputin. Oliver Cromwell’s skull and Eva Peron’s corpse managed to have enough post-mortem adventures to inspire novels. This talk will look at the things your body can get up to once the soul has departed…
