A few things we picked up at the LA Coroner

Me:
1. Never try changing a tire on the freeway. ever.
2. Think long and hard before getting that tattoo
3. Cats will in fact eat your face off when your dead
4. Don't jaywalk
5. Life is precious

Sarah:
1. They have labels that say things like, "blood jars", "brain buckets", "jaw buckets".
2. There is a sign in the autopsy room that says "No eating".... apparently that's necessary.
3. As one pathologist stated, "pathology is a testament to equality". We really are all more or less the same on the inside. Its incredible.
4. Have friends that will call you periodically to make sure that you aren't deceased rotting inside your house. Or in a ditch.
5. Your dogs and cats and rats WILL eat you after you die. Starting with the nose and cheeks.
6. How do you disgust a forensic pathologist? Have him do an autopsy on a woman who is 5 foot nuthin, 303 lbs.
7. DNA is one of the greatest things to ever happen to forensics. COLD CASE --> SOLVED CASE.
8. Motorcycles are wiping all the young viable men off this earth.
9. Michael Jackson was placed in a special locked cage in a crypt that holds up to 500 refrigerated (not frozen) bodies.
10. Don't put Fentanyl patches in your mouth.
11. You get tons of freaked out looks riding in a car labelled "LA Coroner"
12. It is illegal to do any facial dissection unless it is suspected to be involved in cause of death (gun shots, stabbings, etc)
13. I got autoerotic asphyxiation and necrophilia tales for days.

Thanks for the tremendous experience LA Coroner. Smell ya later.