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Podcast: Richard Syrett's Strange Planet
Episode: Diary of a Deputy Coroner
Description: EPISODE #667 DIARY OF A DEPUTY CORONERÂ Richard welcomes a former deputy coroner about investigating deaths, and her encounters with the spirits of the dead.Guest: Donna Francart worked for nearly nine years as a deputy coroner conducting medico-legal death investigations, which are those involving suspicious, violent, unexplained, or unexpected deaths. Lacking access to structured debriefings, Francart turned to journaling as a way of privately unpacking the profound grief she faced and preserving her own mental well-being. As she did, she found herself in a conundrum of perplexing relationships with both the living and the dead.