It's a dirty job, but...

My tour of duty as Field Coroner for the month of August starts, well, now, really. For the next month, every morning I will go down to the morgue to view people who have died of unnatural or unknown causes the night before, watch grieving families identify the bodies and sign off on post-mortems for those that need to be autopsied to discover why they died. I've done this before, a couple of years ago - so it's nothing new. I'm normally quite stoic when it comes to corpses, but when I see a kid, I can't help thinking what about the sheer potential that's gone to waste. Wonder where it all goes.