The Paris Review - Dawn Kasper's Death Scenes
“I realized that I was doing it all to myself. I was making myself feel this way, and for what? For art?”
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“I realized that I was doing it all to myself. I was making myself feel this way, and for what? For art?”
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The situation, you know? i don't know what they're going through, but i just try my best to help them through it. >> while rudy leaves to take on the hardest part of his job, the deceased begins his own journey into the los angeles coroner system. twenty-four hours a day, 7 days a week. >> coroner's office, this is lieutenant dietz. may i help you, please? >> the reports come in of bodies found throughout l.a. county. >> okay. what's the last name of the decedent? >> those who died under a doctor's care can go directly from hospitals to funeral homes. any suspicious passing falls under the cor...
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Doctors care can go from hospitals to funeral homes. any suspicious passing falls under the coroner's jurisdiction. >> thank you for calling. you're welcome. bye, bye. >> the coroner's mission is to recover the bodies from their death scenes, identify them through fingerprinting, locate their families and determine cause of death using autopsies and toxicology. every year the l.a. coroner handles over 11,000 bodies. which begs the question, where do they keep them all? department chief craig harvey agreed to show me. >> we are going over to the security floor. >> so that's -- it's the first pl...