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Tonight on PBS

By Steve Hall

"Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America," is the title of a Frontline documentary that airs tonight on PBS.  Check your local PBS station for time. The New York Times review, "Bumbling in the Morgue: Blind, Drunk or Merely Incompetent Coroners," is written by Ginia Bellafante. Let?s imagine that an intruder entered your home one night and fatally poisoned you. Let?s say that during the previous weeks or months you had evinced signs of emotional volatility. Perhaps you were even depressed. Let?s go further and presume that you lived in one of the many places in America experiencing state and municipal budget crises. The police suspect suicide, but because the coroner?s office is underfinanced and understaffed ? maybe there isn?t even a place to refrigerate your body until someone can get around to dissecting your corpse ? no autopsy is performed to confirm or invalidate those suspicions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2011 (boomark / email).