Name: A Coroner Explains How He Can Stomach Gruesome Scenes
Uploaded: 2023-10-18T17:04:46.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'A Coroner Explains How He Can Stomach Gruesome Scenes' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'A Coroner Explains How He Can Stomach Gruesome Scenes' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-18. Transcript available.

what is the do you think you have some infatuation with death why are you able
to handle this sort of
thing i couldn't handle some of the images that we pulled up right i mean
really you know like
what what makes you think you're able to digest that visually and um
emotionally and everything
and how does it digest for you yeah you know i started health care really young
in life
high school all my friends were taking shop and i decided to take a nursing aid
class i figured
i'd be able to bathe the girls well that didn't work out so well body shop homie
you know what i'm
talking about i should have took shop but that would work but always had a fascination
with health
care and then i went into other things and at one point uh cardiopulmonary
respiratory therapy so we
manage life support systems so okay so then you're getting close to death so
yeah right there rt does
deals with trauma you know we're the airway in that regard so we're involved in
in every traumatic death
when you say respiratory therapists okay are always in the er working for major
codes and core accidents
and things like that so you're around a lot of that so yeah i mean we manage
the life support system
sometimes we have to pull the plug or turn the machine off and uh that's what
you say you'd have
to actually pull the plug yeah well you turn them you just turn the power off
but yeah um you think
you'd at least pull the plug like at least it's actually you do i mean you have
to take the machine out
but you know terminating life support on somebody um by the time you're at that
stage they've done
brain tests to see if there's any brain activity and these people don't want to
live on a machine
you know it's not like they're alive and talking to you right at that stage but
again we see all you
know we we see a lot of trauma and i've always had this uh i've always wanted
to see i wonder what
paramedics and police see um you know i wonder what what people look like when
they don't make it to
the er um i can remember having a uh my brother was in the iraq war the first
one a long time ago and he'd brought
back some pictures and he had some pictures of extremities and things and i was
just fascinated to see
that i don't know why i was born that way i just i but i was really fascinated
to see some of that and then
a la carte huh yeah and so then later in health care and seeing trauma um we
don't you know for someone
that's not in health care yeah it's it's hard to see and imagine but i don't
you know i don't
necessarily see my eyes or i'm looking at science and anatomy you know that's
just a femur or that's
just a brain this is parts of the anatomy that that you know we've that we've
you know studied and seen
before yeah so it's not like i'm seeing you you know i'm not seeing theo i'm
seeing right you know
i just in general brain and knees and whatever yeah i mean people say how can
you be a coroner
because you see bad stuff well an orthopedic surgeon will take your arm off and
they're dealing with
blood and you know all kinds of things and they remove your arm and then put it
back on you know
so it's the same thing uh kinda um it's just what we see do you think there was
a reason you got into
that line of work then do you think there was like something that like you had
this like
you know this dark side that led you into it it seems like you came a little
bit more through like
the medical profession so i but i've always had a uh i've always leaned towards
health care
i've always worked in the trauma area of health care um so you learned
something fascinating about it a
little bit yeah i've always just had it i was just born to do this kind of
stuff you know i don't i
don't do the coroner's office for money it's not a you know i saved my best
thing my best friend's
life and i look back on that and you know it was a blessing to have that yeah
that ability amen to be
able to just be there and be a part yeah if you hadn't been there who knows
yeah so real you know but
yeah i don't know what what shifted me into it um it's kind of like i was
always
set up to do this kind of stuff yeah you know and you can handle it absolutely
and to your uh
yeah uh retired police officer he was like man those guys can eat yeah we can
eat you know that
doesn't bother me i can eat a meatball sub or boudin cracklins in an autopsy
break room
you know when you're hungry you're hungry but i don't know i wouldn't have a
french dip though that
seems a bit much yeah if it's that's pretty good i like french dip i would do
that at home i think
yeah now we don't eat standing over a body you gotta stand off to the side yeah
yeah yeah just
there's a little break room yeah you'll hit it and go ahead and quit it you
know
and plus down in southeast louisiana bruh or if you're down in southwest a lot
of the bodies down
there could be caused by dustin poirier too dude yeah that's right if you're
down in southwest
louisiana bro if you got a good ass whooping i'm not saying he's a serial
killer but i definitely know
right right i bet if you you know and you know fighting i had we had a young
guy died he was
punched once and it was a hard enough hit and he collapsed and hit the cement
and that's really
unfortunate but again it doesn't take much you know life's pretty fragile does
it seem like
that it really is it really is every day is a gift man some of the things we
get frustrated with
with our family and friends um are not worth the frustration because they may
not be here tomorrow
or you won't be here tomorrow you know and i learned that yeah have you learned
that has that had a big
effect on you that's really fascinating yeah you're like this is not a big deal
yeah it's really not
you know you could be pumping gas and a tire flies off a car and takes you out
you know um i've had you
know single trees fall on cars you know just the most bizarre things but when
god's ready for you he's
gonna take you god the hardest part and we were talking about suicides earlier
you know the blood
and guts don't bother me um but when for me anyway when i read a suicide note
that's what sticks with me
i can remember every one i wrote i've read for some reason it's personal at
that point not hey i'll be
in the barn come find me in the barn you know maybe a child emails their
suicide report note to their
family can you imagine and and or just a long letter it it makes it more
personal and that sticks with me
longer than anything else and what is what are those entail a lot of times if
you're looking through them
notes what are they putting in there well you know don't blame yourself kind of
thing um i'll always be
an angel on your on your shoulder and just your real personal things you know i
didn't do this because
of you or you know it's it's for some reason that sticks in my brain more than
than than the actual
scene um yeah it's just hard to deal with sometimes you know that that changes
the the mood if you will
has there been a debt that was really just blew your mind and how tough it was
to deal with that's
something that maybe it attached to something you had personally in your life
or an experience
to learn about yourself yeah that's the that you know those are when you'd ask
me about personal
ones i guess when i see um you know i have children and when maybe like not
that long ago i had a
a 22 year old lose his dad and to watch that 22 year old walk up to his father
in an eeyore you know
i could imagine my children coming to see me and and it you know those hurt um
same as with babies and
you know all those things are hard to see they really take a toll on us and you
know there is no
out for us we have to deal with it best we can um they're not always easy you
know my escape is music
i listen to music on the way there and i'll listen to music on the way back and
it's on the way home
and it's two different types of music depending on what i've seen but we all
need that escape
uh yeah like what will you put on like some credence clearwater or what were
you like what kind
of tunes are you talking about or just something like a like a mozart or what
are we yeah no i mean
my music my music tastes are all over the map but you know um heading out to
scenes i'm i'm jamming to
some alice and chains or some metallica and i'm just getting in the house yeah
yeah i'd like to
yeah i'm rocking but you know when i'm leaving i'll go mellow i'll go i'll go
from you know maybe
some counting crows to some sometimes uh even black gospel music i mean my
brain just goes to you know
depends on the case and uh and what i see but yeah music's an escape for me you
know it gets me out
of that you know i don't do that i don't do this full time we all have other
jobs we're very uh or
we're paid off of the budgets and we don't have much i mean i i literally when
i go out and draw
blood on the weekends or or i vitriol fluid when i get home i throw it in my
fridge at home in the butter
in the butter dish you know my kids know hey dad i found my little boy hey my
dad has dead
people's blood in there yeah you know we we we work around our jobs oh damn
that's satan's condiment
right there boy damn i said last so i mean we wow that's preserves bro we're
really on our own yeah
my kids are desensitized you know they back in the the early windows 98 when
you could set your
screensaver to to just roll through your pictures on your computers every once
in a while one would get
away from me and it would just be this really this gory picture and i'd have to
take it down but
uh you know i've you know yeah my kids are just desensitized to say the least
but they hear me
telling stories about what i'm working with yeah and so they know how dangerous
drugs are they know
yeah i mean it's easy to even joke about you know from being removed from it
you know it's like
it's easy sometimes to try and make levity of some of the situation you know um
what are there things you that you guys have done like in the moment or things
ever that happen you
try to keep some levity in the situation because yeah the only opposite to such
a dark moment is
some levity you know yeah
we'll tease the officers joke around with the officers on scene not so much the
person
yeah in there but um you try to pick up their spirits you know um in all sorts
of ways you know
sometimes you can ask them to to hold something and they think they're actually
doing something
that needs to be done and they're just holding a needle and you know an hour
later they're still
standing there holding that needle it's like you can let that go now you know
um but yeah we you know
you you have to have a a bit of humor otherwise it'll eat you up yeah