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Quotes About Autopsy

The man had donated his body to science, but, owing to its having been autopsied, science politely declined. An anatomy lab is as choosy as a pedigreed woman seeking love: You can't be too fat or too tall or have any communicable diseases.
~ Mary Roach
As pessoas estão constantemente a morrer por falta de sono — dizia Wyzer — apesar de o médico legista acabar por escrever 'suicídio', em vez de 'insónia', na linha correspondente à causa da morte.
~ Stephen King
The name and accomplishments of Oscar J. Dunn have faded so much over time, he has all but disappeared from the history books. The controversy surrounding his untimely death remains unresolved. No one knows why his family refused the autopsy, or why considering the numbers of other Republicans who claimed to have had the same symptoms, Dunn was the only one to die.
~ Beverly Jenkins
I'm completely demanding an autopsy on my grandmother's brain when she's dead so I can see what I'm in for as I age.
~ Meg Cabot
Humes consequently did no dissection to determine exactly where the bullet had gone. In fact, Dr. Finck later said that the autopsy doctors were ordered not to perform a bullet tracking procedure, "but I don't remember by whom."15
~ Bonar Menninger
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
~ Richard Selzer
It seemed to Bosch to be a form of torture heaped upon torture. Corazon was hunched over the steel table, her bloody and gloved hands deep inside the gutted torso, working with forceps and a long-bladed instrument she called the "butter knife." Corazon was not tall and she stood on her tiptoes to be able to reach down and in with her tools. She braced her hip against the side of the autopsy table to gain leverage.
~ Michael Connelly
I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
~ Bill Watterson
That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.
~ Michael Baden
It was only when science convinced us that nature was dead that it could begin its autopsy in earnest.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze.
~ S.E. Cupp
Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: "He was in much better health than we expected." Well, yeah … except for the DEAD part.
~ Teresa Medeiros
La autopsia al final de una velada era uno de los rasgos de su vida conyugal.
~ Ian Mcewan
troubled than my own—had fallen off a Boston boat and drowned. A lengthy autopsy revealed what I could have
~ Caleb Carr
The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
Running a bit behind today," he told them. "Sent off for tox as you'd flagged that. Shouldn't take long." She glanced down at the body. Morris hadn't yet made his Y cut. "What can you tell me just from the visual?" "Lieutenant, this woman is dead." "Peabody, note that down. We've got a dead woman.
~ J.D. Robb
Even the Republicans themselves have acknowledged they have a diversity problem. If you look at their autopsy report following the 2012 election, they have specifically said they would continue to lose presidential elections unless they address the problem that they have with their alienation of minority groups.
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The discipline is based on one grisly fact: a corpse makes a good lunch.
~ Val McDermid
Six of the stab wounds were in the neck and the other twelve in the stomach. One dug as far down in the belly as the abdominal cavity; another reached the liver. The enormous jugular vein in the neck was completely severed and the body was covered with bruises, on her neck, arms, wrists, and around her thighs.
~ Lacey Fosburgh
If there has to be an autopsy of the sordid past, let's blame the parents. Aren't they the primary suspects, anyway? As the eyewitness, I'll testify to that.
~ Goldberry Long
her autobiography was as devoid of interests as her autopsy would have been. I never saw a healthier woman than she, despite thinning diets.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
La charia des mollahs iraniens ne permet pas l'autopsie du corps d'un musulman, pas même celle du corps d'une pute musulmane -- pour les études de médecine, des corps de non-musulmans sont utilisés.
~ Chahdortt Djavann
You see, they had to convince us that the earth was dead because otherwise they could not begin their autopsy in earnest.
~ James Hillman
Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade.
~ Ann Hood