Working Stiff (2009)
“Since there are no autopsies pending, Izzy gives me some forensics textbooks to read and settles me in a small library that is part of the office complex. I spend the morning being alternately fascinated and disturbed by the many ways there are to die, learning all about gunshots, stab wounds, hangings, drownings, explosions, and suffocations.
It’s easy for me to grasp the physiological stuff; I’ve seen all sorts of physical damage to the human body in my work as a nurse. But I am overwhelmed b...y the total science of death, which incorporates physics, chemistry, biology, and even entomology. Ethan would be in seventh heaven.
After a couple of hours of reading I need a break, so I wander upstairs using the new key card Izzy finally gave me. I find Arnie bent over a microscope in his lab, intently studying whatever he has beneath the lens. He appears totally focused and engrossed, so I’m surprised when he says, “Hello, Mattie,” without looking up.
“How’d you know it was me?”MoreLess
It’s easy for me to grasp the physiological stuff; I’ve seen all sorts of physical damage to the human body in my work as a nurse. But I am overwhelmed b...y the total science of death, which incorporates physics, chemistry, biology, and even entomology. Ethan would be in seventh heaven.
After a couple of hours of reading I need a break, so I wander upstairs using the new key card Izzy finally gave me. I find Arnie bent over a microscope in his lab, intently studying whatever he has beneath the lens. He appears totally focused and engrossed, so I’m surprised when he says, “Hello, Mattie,” without looking up.
“How’d you know it was me?”MoreLess
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