Unnatural Causes

by Dr Richard Shepherd

while few people actually want to die, when it happens, death itself is probably actually pleasurable.

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It has amazed me, over the years, how frequently men (but not noticeably women) will kill their best friend. And brothers commit fratricide even more frequently.

it was concluded that there were 2,753 victims, and in total something like 70,000 body parts or fragments were found.

That’s pathologists for you. Miserable, death-obsessed, dour-faced butchers.

The cost and administration of opening an inquest seems to encourage some coroners to overlook an element of doubt. If there ‘might be’ a natural cause and a doctor ‘might be’ willing to sign a form, many coroners will accept that without too much inquiry. Sadly, the need for the police to pay a standard fee, admittedly several thousand pounds, to a forensic pathologist, may be enough to persuade them that a death (especially, it sometimes seems, one close to the end of the financial year) really is not so suspicious after all and can be dealt with by a local, non-forensic pathologist instead of one of the forty or so specialists registered by the Home Office.

Check out this quote.this is shocking and is only going to get worse

the first casualty of war is truth.