John Bateson > Quotes

“The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against their religion, or against their culture, or contrary to their personal values. Like other unpleasant subjects - incest, disease, discrimination - it's avoided.”
― John Bateson, The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge

“Many coroners are licensed physicians who have no training in forensics, while in hundreds of communities across the country—including Marin County—the coroner isn’t required to have any medical training at all, much less a medical degree. He or she just needs to have a clean record, meaning no felony convictions, be twenty-one or older, and have a high school diploma. Some counties don’t even require that, however. One county in Indiana elected a coroner who was eighteen and still in high school.”
― John Bateson, The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death

“In the United States, 40,000 people die by suicide every year. By comparison, there are 18,000 homicides in the country annually.”
― John Bateson, The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death

“Coroners deal with death”
― John Bateson, The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death