What do I like to do at midnight when I need to wake up in five hours? Well, I do enjoy me some light autopsy reading. I just watched the HBO Documentary There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane which started this renewed documentary kick I have been on. I knew before watching it that the film would feature some photos of Diane's body so I do what I do and tried to analyze the injuries that I could see.
But only an autopsy can tell you what you can't. So off I went to reading. The problem is, and always has been for me who only tends to read these things every once in a while, that I don't have the vocabulary of a medical examiner. Therefore, in another tab I have searches for term definitions. That makes the reading that much more lengthy, but also makes a bit more sense.
Sometimes I wish I studied for whatever degree is necessary to be a medical examiner but then I remember that I don't have a great general love for math and science and I also hate to study unless it is the bits that interest me. In other words, I probably wouldn't have gotten far. But I know I am one of the few who can look at death and instead of asking the cosmos "why?" would rather discover the "how?". Not to make this a faith vs. science thing, but I do think that explains, at least in part, my lack of need for religion in my life.
But only an autopsy can tell you what you can't. So off I went to reading. The problem is, and always has been for me who only tends to read these things every once in a while, that I don't have the vocabulary of a medical examiner. Therefore, in another tab I have searches for term definitions. That makes the reading that much more lengthy, but also makes a bit more sense.
Sometimes I wish I studied for whatever degree is necessary to be a medical examiner but then I remember that I don't have a great general love for math and science and I also hate to study unless it is the bits that interest me. In other words, I probably wouldn't have gotten far. But I know I am one of the few who can look at death and instead of asking the cosmos "why?" would rather discover the "how?". Not to make this a faith vs. science thing, but I do think that explains, at least in part, my lack of need for religion in my life.
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