1. If you're a person who delights in finding answers to the seemingly unexplainable, imagine the thrill you'd get when a dead body turns up and everyone looks to you for the answer. Nearly every workday represents a new riddle for a coroner, who must then use knowledge, curiosity and legal authority to solve it.
2. The first call that goes out when a mysterious death has occurred is (often by law) to the coroner's office. If the death is violent or suspicious, or its cause is simply unknown, the coroner or medical examiner gets to investigate and make an official determination.The purpose of the investigation is to determine if any criminal or negligent act has occurred. Not all apparent suicides are in fact suicides some are accidents (as can occur during autoerotic asphyxiation), and some are concealed acts of foul play.
3. Medical examiners do much more than determine the cause and time of death they help bring closure and a sense of understanding to loved ones of the deceased
4. Let's face it -- we'd all like to have a job that's prominently featured in police-procedural TV shows (other than that of the landlord whose tenant mysteriously died, that is). Imagine the self-satisfaction you'd feel creating a sense of awe in others as you tell everyone within earshot of the television, "That's what I do for a living."
5. If you're in the medical field, there's a lot less pressure when the subjects coming through your door are already dead. Plus, without a life hanging in the balance, work for a medical examiner quite often can be put off until the next day.
2. The first call that goes out when a mysterious death has occurred is (often by law) to the coroner's office. If the death is violent or suspicious, or its cause is simply unknown, the coroner or medical examiner gets to investigate and make an official determination.The purpose of the investigation is to determine if any criminal or negligent act has occurred. Not all apparent suicides are in fact suicides some are accidents (as can occur during autoerotic asphyxiation), and some are concealed acts of foul play.
3. Medical examiners do much more than determine the cause and time of death they help bring closure and a sense of understanding to loved ones of the deceased
4. Let's face it -- we'd all like to have a job that's prominently featured in police-procedural TV shows (other than that of the landlord whose tenant mysteriously died, that is). Imagine the self-satisfaction you'd feel creating a sense of awe in others as you tell everyone within earshot of the television, "That's what I do for a living."
5. If you're in the medical field, there's a lot less pressure when the subjects coming through your door are already dead. Plus, without a life hanging in the balance, work for a medical examiner quite often can be put off until the next day.