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el_paco_me24 karma

Hey, thanks for doing this. I have two questions:

1) Do you have to respond to infant cases as well? If so, how do you manage to overcome the shock of finding yourself across such a situation? I don’t know why but I find everything - hell, even when depicted on TV - to be far more difficult to deal with if it involves children.

2) how do you decompress at the end of a work day. I can’t imagine that seeing dead bodies and dealing with such situations is easy on the mind. Or maybe it is and it’s just not my line of work. But do you just go home and have a beer, watch some TV, and remind yourself that this is just one more line of work and one you happen to enjoy? I have a friend who’s a funeral home director and he just goes out to dinner whenever he has a funeral. His logic? After awhile (he’s been doing this for well over two decades) you grow desensitized to it. Is it the same in your line of work?

el_paco_me23 karma

Thank you so much for your answer. I don’t think I’d realized this before, hell I wasn’t even sure your line of work was a formal one (I figured something like it existed but didn’t know it was a specific thing, idk how much sense that makes). But reading this AMA has made me realize what an important job you do - specially with what you mentioned in regards to “helping the [victim] speak”. As the other person mentioned above, take care of yourself. Thank you for your answers and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day off.

el_paco_me11 karma

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el_paco_me6 karma

Really? Source?