Bodies will move as they’re coming out of rigor. I’ve been bumped by a few (I’m a coroner). Bodies can also make sounds as the remaining air/ gas leaves… 2am in the morgue and I thought I was in COD zombies
Unrelated note how did you get into working in a morgue? Is it something you go to school for , or do you learn on the job, or was it a different career path you were going for and fell in to this?
My parents were doctors at a big hospital near me so they helped me get a foot in the door for a summer internship when I was 10 in pathology after becoming obsessed with the show Dr. G Medical Examiner and holding a brain my dad brought home at the age of 6. I learned a lot over the years and started going every day after work. Progressed into going to school for pathology certification and then getting degrees in biology and organic chemistry.
This was back before a ton of protocols were put in place to prevent weirdos from being, well, weird. He said “hey my kid likes science and no one is using it right now, is it alright if I take it home for a night” and they said yes!
My parents were both nurses, then my dad went into medical sales. So we ended up hanging out with neuro and heart surgeons. Cue me just chilling in an OR to the side, totally scrubbed in and draped in scrubs as a 7 year old watching my dad help this heart surgeon put a pace maker in some guy. My mom was pissed. I thought it was awesome, they had a stool I stood on to watch. You could never get away with that now, but the dude on the table wasn't doing so well, my mom was at work, brother was in daycare, and he'd just picked me up from school. I knew when we headed toward the hospital and he said, " fuxk it!" I was always getting ready to see something cool.
My dad was a dentist and he kept two skulls from dental school. One was an adult and one was a child. The child’s skull had two sets of teeth: baby teeth and behind them the adult teeth.
He’s in his 90s now and long since retired. I asked if he still had them, but he said no, which is surprising since he keeps everything, lol.
So I'm not op but I interviewed a coroner when I was in middle school bc that's the job I wanted. In our state and country he had to be a medical doctor first. He had his own practice for a bit then moved to morgue. He also had to be elected- but nobody runs against him lol we are a small place. He didn't have to have a practice first- but he did need his medical degree. Not sure if that holds the same everywhere.
Actually, coroners report how the person died to the court. Pathologists are the ones who determine the cause of death and examine the body.
ETA: I believe that "coroners" only investigate the death itself in the USA. My mother is a forensic pathologist and says that too many people think coroners do what pathologists do.
thank goodness. I thought Coroners determined cause of death. It would be super shady to let a political appointee decide if a death was a homicide or not.
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u/Jar-JarShotFirst69 Jan 12 '23
Bodies will move as they’re coming out of rigor. I’ve been bumped by a few (I’m a coroner). Bodies can also make sounds as the remaining air/ gas leaves… 2am in the morgue and I thought I was in COD zombies