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What It’s Like To Work As A Coroner

The truth is, it’s nothing like what you see on television. Read these confessions from a coroner…

As I stood over the railroad tracks, freezing and cold on a damp, rainy December morning, I couldn’t tell whether what I was looking at was ever human. Some kid had decided to throw himself in front of an Amtrak train — and now I, as the coroner, was out at 3:00 a.m. scooping up body parts to somehow make him whole again, so his family could bury him.

What a life.

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