A Real Autopsy Experience: Inside the County Morgue with Sarah Giovannelli

Every month, Ghouls and Girlies meets to have a discussion on a different eerie topic. At the bottom of this May event detail will be a full bio of Ghouls and Girlies. Join us to listen to our regular attendee Sarah speak of her experiences with interning at the county morgue located in the small Ohio town she grew up in. Sarah will explain the following and have a Q and A at the end: differences in medical coroner examinations in Ohio based on type of death, viewing case files for already solved deaths, the processing of remains from arrival to departure to a funeral home, and how an autopsy is peformed on a body. Sarah currently has a career in STEM with no stiffs, but certainly has retained a lot of memories of her experience in Ohio. To help prepare ahead of time for May 14, attendees can use all or some of the below resources. They have been vetted by Sarah.

Three (3) You Tube Videos:

1). This medical examiner doctor is explaining various tools used in an autopsy.

Autopsy Tool Setup

2). This funeral director explains the difference between a "medical examiner" and a "coroner" and that the roles can vary from county-to-county and state-to-state.

Difference Between a Medical Examiner and Coroner

3). This histopathologist presents a 90 minute living autopsy lecture. She is explaining the process on an alive person, not performing an actual autopsy on a deceased body.

Living Autopsy: What Happens during a post-mortem? Full 90 mins. lecture

You can also read Wikipedia:

tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy

(((Here is a bio of who we are: Are you a girlie obsessed with ghosts, aliens, true crime, cryptids, and anything else eerie or spooky? Do you crave new like-minded friends to accompany you in a deep dive into your favorite creepy topics and share the cozy, warm feeling of a terrifying horror film? Our group began in Oct. 2023. We meet every first Thursday of the month from 7-9pm to discuss topics like a true crime podcast or documentary, a trilogy of horror movies, a gothic fiction novel title, personal experiences and beliefs about spirits, historical sightings of Mothman or the Loch Ness Monster, etc. We also organize extra events, like going to the movies, listening to a live lecture expert, or going on haunted tours. [We are LGBTQ-inclusive. We welcome anyone female/femme/trans/non-binary of age 21+. We are disability-inclusive]. Please feel free to ask me, your host Jen, of any questions))).

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