Alex Campbell

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Canadian Politician

Lenny Bruce

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

American Comedian

Candace Kita

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

American Actress

A coroner is involved in legal procedures, usually around unexpected deaths.

Legal Context

Coroners perform autopsies and gather evidence to explain how someone died.

Investigative Role

A coroner may not be a medical doctor unlike a medical examiner, depending on the jurisdiction.

Not a Doctor

 and at this time, the coroner system was so corrupt that you could literally buy your cause of death. Often coroners didn't even show up at crime scenes. And if you go back and you look at the death certificates of the time, I found one that read,

Early forensics and...

 we looked at every single failure, and we looked for common characteristics, and we discovered this recipe was common to each of these frauds. In other words, a coroner could find these things because this is a fatal recipe

How to rob a bank (from...

 coroner had gone things must be put back in order even when things will never ever be the same it's gruesome work but someone's got to George when a life ends in the worst possible way in the