This book focuses on liminal bodies and their delicate transaction with themselves and other people s bodies. More specifically, it explores the spatiality and discourses of the body dying; the body opened in surgery, or through MRIs, CATs, and sometimes in autopsies; the body preserved through computerized images such as those created by the Visual Human Project; the metonymic body that continues to live in another body through organ replacement; and the bodily parts cast in silver, and then abandoned in a museum. This study also analyzes the discourses of the contemporary body commissioned by the vast industry of mass-media. This type of body has started to direct itself toward frugal, almost furtive pleasures; consequently unlike those seriously affected by illnesses a body constantly guarded by fear eventually runs on empty, becomes a corps-d??j??-vu, and thus moves toward different types of minimal and liminal topology. The primary works examined include memoirs (Marjorie Williams s 'Hit by Lightning: A Cancer Memoir,' Arthur W. Frank s At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness, Audre Lorde s The Cancer Journals), films (Alejandro Amen??bar s The Sea Inside, Akira Kurosawa s Ikiru, Pedro Almod?3var s All about My Mother), stories (Marisa Silver s 'Night Train to Frankfurt'), visual artworks (as accomplished by Jo Spence, David Wojnarowicz, F??lix Gonzales-Torres, and Natalie Horne) and plays (Bryony Lavery s Last Easter, Paula Vogel s Baltimore Waltz, William Hoffman s As Is), which are read comparatively, namely as works positioned at the intersection between literature/visual art and social diaries.