becoming a mortician, what one notices, and police handling of deaths and dead bodies

[pico_the_great]

Little Details, I have a set of questions I've put off asking because they are long and complicated and because I'd had to do massive amounts of research for them, and that, at this point, I can't progress without asking/knowing. AND SO I am moved to come to your world and of ye these questions three many, because please help.

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[in_excelsis_dea]

2) For me, it was a lifelong fascination with dead things (I was the small child who wanted to dissect roadkill), and at ca 16 I realized it could actually be a career, and then got into all the forensics stuff, and years later decided my interests went more to the historical side of death, and now I'm on my way to becoming a bioarchaeologist.

2b) Oh definitely -- I'm that way. Particularly when you get into the more academic fields (forensic anthropology, historians, etc.) you've got to be into it, because it will take over your life. I could talk forever about medieval and early modern death and burial rites and how they played into the construction of identity in their eras and how they're still present in society today and just on and on. Mind you, beyond an academic setting, particularly as a kid, people are going to be side-eyeing her a bit, but whatever

[in_excelsis_dea]

6) Hah, kind of a dangerous question to pose me, because I'm curious about it all. But I suppose the intersection of magic/science and religion is what I'd be most interested in, as that's largely what my area of research is, and cause of death and the why of it all. I mean, my research is essentially looking at a body, going "how did they die, why were they buried like this, what does it mean for their identity, and what can I learn about the society itself