All That Remains: A Life in Death

by Sue Black

‘Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mors ipsa,’

One of our pathologists, who arrived in a later team, and who shall remain nameless, was secretly referred to as ‘Dagenham’ because she was two stops short of Barking.

Unusual people, unusual circumstances, extraordinary commitment.

I have never been spooked by the dead. It is the living who terrify me.