I want you to put this on the screen in big, bold letters — dead people don’t vote.

Coroner Frank Minyard. Frontline: Post Mortem - Death Investigation In America 

Popular television shows portray death investigators as high-tech sleuths wielding the most sophisticated tools of 21st century science. An unprecedented collaborative investigation by FRONTLINE, ProPublica and NPR found a very different reality: A dysfunctional system in which there are few standards, little oversight and the mistakes are literally buried. In state after state, reporters found autopsies — our final physical exam — conducted by doctors who lacked certification and training. An increasing number of the 2.5 million Americans who die each year go to the grave without being examined at all.  - Watch here


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