What Does a Coroner Do? (Reddit AMA with a Coroner)

30 Morbid Minutes

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We’re doing a thorough examination of what life is like for a professional coroner, pulling questions from a Reddit AMA in which a real-life coroner gives personal insight into the ways in which they investigate deaths, locate and notify families of deaths, determine cause and manner of death, and relay information to the media. Leave us a review -- it helps the show! :) Follow Us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠30MorbidMinutes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by ⁠⁠Casey Edwards ⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.4	Today on the show, we're doing a thorough examination of
0:39.9	what life is like for a professional coroner. Welcome to 30 Morbid Minutes.
1:01.8	This is the podcast where we cover People Places, topic, history, and ideas of a morbid,
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1:04.6	I'm Elise Willems.
1:06.1	And I'm Jessica Vasami.
1:14.5	Today on the show, we are doing another of our Reddit AMA explorations, and this time we found an AMA from a professional coroner.
1:24.0	I love these because we don't look at them ahead of time, and we just hope to God that we're dealing with a real coroner and not some person that's just like, boop, boop, poop, farts.
1:24.6	Yeah.
1:29.6	So. And this, this person, their username was H.C. CrevDep.
1:34.2	Which I don't know if that's some kind of inside coroner thing.
1:36.2	Inside coroner jokes.
1:36.6	Okay.
1:38.8	Maybe it's HCC Rev Depp.
1:39.8	I'm not really sure.
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