He sees dead people, but never gets used to it

Friday, August 7, 2009 - 18:42 in Psychology & Sociology

He helped retrieve a corpse from a lake, saw dozens of cadavers in medical school and has been there when 'patients' became 'bodies,' but he never became numb to death's pain. The first time I saw a dead body I was groping around in the dark in 125 feet of water looking for a drowning victim. A few members of my diving club...

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