“The morgue is a Victorian update of a system established by Alfred the Great. It's the place where certain deaths are resolved - those where the cause is unclear or is the result of some intended or accidental violence. The bodies are almost always victims in some way - of crime, suicides and car crashes, but also victims of loneliness. It's where you go if you die alone in your flat and your body lies undisturbed for days. It's where you go if no one knew you were dying and no GP attended your final hours. It's where you go if no loved one held your hand as you slipped away. In one way or another, then, all the people who pass through this room are the people who die screaming.” DeathLonelinessMorguePost MortemCoroner Author:Stephen Armstrong
“He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific problem or research. His work excluded any consideration for the feelings of those around him. And he rarely excused himself or justified his behavior. It was as if he was compelled to focus all his energy on one subject and was unaware that others did not follow his obsession.” ObsessionDissectionLeonardo Da VinciMatteoPost Mortem Book:The Medici Seal Source: The Medici Seal
“Courtrooms (can) be exciting arenas where combating attorneys (fight) out issues of life and death, but there (is) nothing exciting about a courtroom where tired old loves (go) to die, or to be exhumed for delayed post-mortem.” LawLife And DeathCourtroomLawyersOld LoveFamily LawAttorneysPost MortemLegal ProceedingTired Love Author:Helen Nielsen
“The seeds of our own destruction are often sown at birth or in childhood. We are too busy acquiring knowledge and living life to notice their presence. It is for our biographers, if we are of sufficient importance to have any, to highlight them to a post-mortem audience.” BiographersCharacter FlawsAchilles HeelSelf Destructive BehaviorBiography Of Famous PeoplePost MortemFatal FlawSelf Destructive QuoteExposed SecretsSeeds Of Destruction Author:Stewart Stafford
“They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink” SoulBodyDeathAutopsyDead BodiesPost Mortem Book:The High Mountains of Portugal Source: The High Mountains of Portugal
“The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.” LifeUnderstandingExistenceDissectionLeonardo Da VinciMatteoPost Mortem Book:The Medici Seal Source: The Medici Seal