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Podcast: Ash Said It® Show
Episode: Former Deputy Coroner Offers Captivating Look Inside Mysterious Profession
Description: Death is life’s great equalizer, and for former deputy coroner Donna Francart, shepherding survivors through the aftermath of a loved one’s unexpected passing was a calling she felt compelled to answer — at all hours — for nearly nine years. In her new book, I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner, Francart gives readers a rare look inside the complex emotional, physical and mental ups and downs of one of society’s most mysterious — and to some, macabre — professions. As a deputy coroner, Francart worked medicolegal death investigations, which are those involving suspicious, violent, unexplained or...