Down Among the Dead Men Quotes

“I have to admit I was annoyed. Not physically annoyed, but inside annoyed. That helpless feeling you have when you know you should not be angry because you have to consider how other people are feeling or accept them for what they are, and that it is not your place to say anything. But annoyed because you have not been considered in the whole picture, you are there and that is that. Apologies begin to mean nothing at that point and frustration takes over.”
― Michelle Williams, Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician

“the pacemaker out, we have to cut the leads to the heart, and the bloody thing interprets this as the heart stopping, so we get the shock. Some mortuary staff have been severely injured. The cardiac technicians have to come over and wave a special wand over them to switch them off, and if this is not picked up on and the leads are cut, you may need an ambulance on stand-by. Telling which are the ordinary ones and which are the lethal ones”
― Michelle Williams, Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician