Broken skeletons in black hooded cloaks, dancing with a deadly scythe; cold wheat cutters, black angels, pale knights.
These are our immediate fantasies about death.
When it comes to death, the profession of forensic medicine is directly linked to him.
The book Forensic Report: What Death Teaches Us can be said to be the brother of the same disciple of the Autopsy Report.
In my understanding, the profession of forensic doctor is related to homicide, and it is the main job of forensic doctors to identify the cause of death of the deceased, the possible way of committing the murder by the murderer, and to provide evidence and support to the police to solve the case.
So I first bought this book, hoping to see forensic workers record their daily stories of finding clues through corpses, finding clues, and finally successfully solving the case.
However, the work of forensic anthropologists in this book is different from what I imagined, and assisting the police in solving cases is indeed part of the work of forensic anthropologists, but forensic anthropologists can do much more than that.
Forensic scientists here actually refer to forensic anthropologists, so they also work as "anthropologists".
The author, Sue Blake, is an influential anatomist and forensic anthropologist in the world. She led a forensic team to collect evidence of war criminals. After the 2004 Indian tsunami, she was the first forensic anthropologist to arrive in Thailand to identify the victims.
✨ When encountering an unnamed corpse, forensic anthropologists need to determine the identity of the deceased through information on the bones.
✨ When someone goes missing, forensic anthropologists need to assist the police in searching for where they might be buried when they die.
Sue Black recounted her involvement in the identification of the bones, trying to find the little girl who had been missing for more than 60 years and had not seen anyone dead.
Forensic anthropologists need to examine every part of the body because they need to find subtle evidence in it;
As they say: "Man will lie, but bones will not!" ”
At the same time, forensic anthropologists also engage with the families of the donors, and the book also explains in great detail what the remains involved in the donation will experience after death.
Gu Gu wanted to say
When reading this book, you can feel Sue's tenderness, she uses the most detailed language to describe life and death, and at the same time, people can feel her gentleness and meticulousness, and sometimes feel her sadness.
While reading this book, I was asked to face death authentically. The word death is a process that we have been avoiding communicating directly, but we must go through. As the book says, our fear of death is actually the fear of the unknown of the world after death.
When we escape death, in fact, we will also ignore life, because death and life are closely linked, and only if we are clear about our attitude towards death can we better respect life and respect the profession of forensic anthropologist.
This book has been recommended by the Times, The Guardian, The Scotsman and many other newspapers, and I sincerely recommend that you read it as well.