The Language of the Dead Spoken From The Grave
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
There really is a Language of the Dead and it is spoken by the deceased in a way that people like Professor Joseph Scott Morgan can understand. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan explains the Language of the dead known as the Post Mortem Interval, PMI. Many phrases are used on podcasts, tv shows, and movies where it is assumed the audience knows the meaning, but many times, we don't. Joseph Scott Morgan takes the time to define and explain PMI; Post Mortem Interval, in this somewhat different, very informative episode of Body Bags.
Transcribe Highlights
00:12.74 Introduction of PMI Post Mortem Interval
04:42.25 Discussion sounds a dead body makes
09:20.95 Discussion of death investigation
14:18.98 Discussion of Jacksonville State University
19:18.52 Talk about the language of the dead
24:23.14 Discussion of what happens when a person dies
29:48.47 Discussion of "real world: conditions
34:18.51 Discussion of what happens when a person dies in unusual position
39:00.23 Talk about liquid seeks lowest area
43:12.20 Discussion of "fixed"
44:20.54 Conclusion Paying attention
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| 0:00.0 | Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:04.0 | I guess it was probably |
| 0:10.0 | 1998. 1998 had a student that came to the medical examiners office that had been chosen for one of the coveted |
| 0:28.9 | undergraduate ride-along internship programs that we offered over the summer. |
| 0:38.2 | And back then, most of them required a face-to-face interview. |
| 0:47.5 | But this individual had sent their resume in, and it was very impressive. a matter of fact I'll tell you what |
| 0:55.2 | university they were with they were actually from a university in my hometown of |
| 0:59.9 | New Orleans they were from Tulane. And this individual was a physical anthropology major, had |
| 1:06.5 | plans on going to the University of Tennessee to work on graduate work at the body farm, |
| 1:12.2 | very impressive stuff. But then on the day |
| 1:16.6 | that they were supposed to be there, they showed up. I have never seen anything |
| 1:22.0 | like it in my life. |
| 1:25.0 | Think a combination of Morticia Adams and Gomez Adams together blended and I'm looking into the eyes of this person and everything hair clothing is black. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm looking into the eyes of this person. |
| 1:37.3 | And everything, hair, clothing is black with chrome jewelry all over them and skulls everywhere and |
| 1:50.8 | their skin is white as snow. |
| 1:53.0 | And I went to introduce myself and the first thing out of their mouth after I said, |
| 1:58.0 | welcome to the medical examiner's office was, |
| 2:01.0 | I just want you to know I speak with the dead on a regular basis. |
| 2:11.0 | And that's how my summer began in 1998. |
| 2:17.0 | I don't know if they commune with the dead or not. |
| 2:24.2 | But I do know this. |
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