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Trabajo En Una Morgue Y Soy El Fotógrafo De La Muerte ( Recopilación De Morgues #2 ) · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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A man named Samuel, of modest appearance and tired gaze, spent his days
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within the city, where the days took on a grey look. He bore
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with him the scars of a life marked by loneliness. Samuel’ s face
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reflected the suffering that had marked him. A few years ago he would have
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lost his wife in a car accident, even though he had not been the
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culprit, all the people close to her daily blamed him for that misfortune.
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He never managed to overcome that grief, in addition to the trauma of having
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to carry and collect his body with forensics. Despite all the loneliness and sadness,
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he was still standing up to all this on his own. During the
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years lived, Samuel developed in different trades to be able to bring a bread
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into his mouth. He never strayed from the road. The job I'
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ve been doing lately was to be a janitor without any shame. He carried
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out his work with pride. Accompanied by his mop. Samuel went through several
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places, schools, offices, restaurants, and lately he was working inside Dr
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Martínez' s hospital, where he became accustomed to seeing heartbreaking scenes, not
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only because of the severe patients, but also because of families who came to
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suffer losses that sometimes reminded him of his deceased wife. His working life led
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a path with complete normality until one day, when he arrived at the hospital,
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he was called by Dr Martínez. Samuel imagined that he would probably be
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fired and would see himself in the need to seek another job. Upon entering
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his office he was kindly received by the doctor. He told her he was
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doing a great job. He knew his story and knew that the salary he
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earned was somewhat poor, or so r offered him a vacancy with a higher
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salary than he earned in the hospital. Without hesitation, Amuela accepted the offer.
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He couldn' t hide his emotion until the doctor gave him a little
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detail about the vacancy. I wouldn' t be a janitor anymore from a
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hospital, a school, or any other place I' d stepped on.
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From the next day on, I' d work as a morgue janitor.
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He' s got a knot in his throat. Overwhelmed by the information,
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he questioned the decision to take the job the doctor noticed the mood change in
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Samuel and asked what was the final decision. With some doubt he accepted the
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proposal. They shook hands, the deal was already closed, and the next
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day he would show up at his new workplace at the Morgue inside his little
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house. Samuel had dinner thinking about what it would be like to work in
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that place. Just thinking that he would work in a place where death was
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present, he began to despair and even to reject the position. At the
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end of his dinner, he set out to go to sleep. He walked
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to his bed. Next to her was a small bureau, which had a
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picture of his late wife. When he took it, he could not help
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but remember that tragic night when his beloved' s body was delivered to him,
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a tear fell on the photo, but when he saw the portrait,
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he conveyed to him a feeling of courage, as if his wife were encouraging
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him to accept that work and go for that determined salary. Samuel would go
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the next day in search of a new chapter within his office. As a
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janitor. The day' s here. Samuel was preparing to begin a new
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phase. He went out with all the attitude on his way to that dark
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place. Crossing the door of the morgue, he seemed to have crossed into
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another world, a world of complete darkness and total silence. The receptionist saw
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Samuel come in and asked who that guy was quoting. He said he'
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d be the new janitor. The woman. He immediately got up from his
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desk. He welcomed him and began to show him the place, as well
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as everything related to his work. While it was explained to him, the
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entire ambulance was present. Emergency bodies lowered a stretcher covered with a white sheet.
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The woman took the opportunity to let Samuel know that she would have to
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clean up any traces of dirt left by the paramedics in her course in the
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room, where the bodies would be examined and when the forensics left, she
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would also have to clean inside the room. He started his work at the
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morgue. He cleaned the halls, shook the furniture, moped the floor.
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The morgue looked cleaner than ever. The main part of the place was glowing.
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Now it would have to pass to that dark room where the lifeless bodies
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rested l l l l l l l n n NS their working material.
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With him he knocked on the door of the room to verify that no doctor
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was there and did not interrupt his work. No one answered. Then he
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entered and watched the whole place carefully, several steel tables, lamps everywhere and
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work equipment that with the brightness of the lights emitted dim glows. He began
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by throwing the dust from the tables to the ground and then being swept away
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by his broom and finally passing the mop. The floor had a few stains
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representing all the bodies that had arrived at that place. When cleaning, I
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couldn' t help feeling the heavy atmosphere. You could not imagine how many
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corpses had passed through the morgue how many souls had failed to find their way
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and decided to stay there. He left the room and went to the cellar,
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where he could rest when he would not have to clean up. Despite
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being a small space, he had a chair to rest on, as well
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as an old TV where he could be distracted and a small microwave oven to
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heat food in case he was going to starve sitting. He took a moment
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to reflect on how his first day was going. Everything was going on normally.
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The days passed. Every morning. Samuel woke up early to clean up
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and prepare his lunch. He was early for his job. Kindly, I
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greeted all the workers. I had some pleasant talks with the receptionist and the
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paramedics. Similarly, forensic doctors told stories about the place. Samuel quickly became
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dear to all, not only for his good attitude, but also for his
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excellent work. One afternoon, when the sun was hiding and the night was
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beginning to make a presence, the sound of the sirens was heard in the
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distance to approach. Emergency teams quickly came down from the back of the ambulance.
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The body of a man who had been murdered. The stretcher was completely
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bloody. Samuel looked with shock and horror The scene was amazed because, even
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though the body was lifeless, the body was still shedding blood. Paramedics were
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desperate not to be able to control the situation, who could not believe that
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the body was still pouring so much red fluid. The stretcher entered the room
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with forensics, but left a great trail of blood. Samuel, seeing tremendous
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filth, ran for his mop, prepared to clean up all that mess.
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With the mop in hand. He approached the pool of blood ready to clear
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the trail of violence he had invaded. The morgue began to pass the object
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through the floor, but it was holding fast to stay there. It was
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hard for him to remove that stain. Samuel was going through a stressful moment.
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On the one hand, forensic doctors were desperately heard arguing with the paramedics
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about themselves. In fact, this person no longer had life and, on
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the other hand, the blood trail impossible to remove from the floor was increasingly
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carved with force, but every effort was useless. Blood only took strange forms.
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Samuel tired, made one last attempt and with hope passed over the blood
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stain. Surrealistically. The blood began to be molded into a creepy figure a
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deformed hand that twisted and was dragged down the ground. He did the autopsy
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room, where all the personnel involved were amazed by the scene, and looked
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at it with disbelief and horror. A curious thing was that at that moment
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the silence took hold of the love that in the halls no voices were heard,
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no sound inside or outside was heard. Everything was absolute Silence was hypnotized
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by that blood stain until it suddenly felt a blow of the air that would
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bring it back to reality. He passed the mop again and finally managed to
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remove the stain from the floor. While Samuel was putting up the wet floor
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signs, the coroners came out of the room upset with the paramedics disguising.
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He managed to hear part of the discussion. The body, which supposedly no
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longer had life, still had vital signs and had been taken by the ambulance
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to the wrong place, where it finally found its way to death. The
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doubt was born in Samuel, who could not believe what he was hearing,
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as it was possible that the paramedics did not realize that the body was still
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alive. It was impossible for him to believe what happened. I waited patiently
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for the atmosphere to calm down to put an end to the intrigue. Finally,
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he had a chance to approach forensics. He went into the autopsy room
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on the excuse that he' d clean up the space. Upon entering,
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he noticed forensics talking right in front of the body about what happened. While
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asking permission to enter the room, he took the courage to ask the question
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that would solve all his doubt. He asked what exactly had happened. The
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coroners, having a good relationship with Samuel, approached kindly to explain calmly what
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happened. Apparently, the victim had gone through a case of catalepsy, which
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consists of a person lying motionless as if he were dead and without vital signs,
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but still in a conscious state and suddenly reacting. They commented that these
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cases rarely occurred. The body, when it arrived, had no vital signs,
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only uncontrolled bleeding. S As he began to analyze it, his heartbeat
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returned rapidly. It was urgent to admit him to a hospital, but time
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moved fast and he lost his life definitively. Samuel listened attentively with amazement.
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The doctors looked at him head- on. As they tried to explain everything
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in detail with simple words, they turned their backs on the body, so
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they did not notice the traumatic moment Samuel was about to observe the body lay
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motionless like a mannequin of flesh and bone. However, in an instant of
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paralyzing horror, Samuel saw the dead man' s eyes looking at him as
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if he were watching from the abyss of death. With a trembling voice he
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pointed the phenomenon to forensics, but his response was simple. It was impossible.
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The body no longer contained a single trace of life that allowed such movements.
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The forensics, stressed by the sight, left the room during that night,
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leaving Samuel alone with the body. Before they crossed the door, he
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asked if the body would remain there assisting with its head. They answered their
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question, promising that they would deal with the matter later. Likewise, they
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asked him in favor to cover the body with a sheet with fear he complied
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with the order. He took a sheet out of a locker. He approached
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the corpse with his heart in his throat and spread the cloth over the cold
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body, facing the challenge of cleaning up the disaster that the events had left
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behind, began to do his work. The mop' s sound, scraping
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with the ground, resonated in the silence surrounding it. As he progressed in
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his labors, the feeling that the body observed him could not be removed.
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He felt the heavy presence of the body as a shadow on his back,
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as if the breath of his soul caressed his neck. In each movement,
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for the moment he was forced to turn his gaze and face the look of
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the body that, despite being covered by the sheet, felt that it was
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passing through the cloth. He was trying to get to the idea that that
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look of the corpse towards him had been the product of his imagination and the
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stress of the moment. Samuel finally finished cleaning the room, there was no
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more blood or dirt in the place, as if nothing had happened, with
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cautious steps, he picked up his equipment and headed to the exit, leaving
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behind that room with traces of death and desolation. However, he barely closed
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the door and advanced a few steps. Strikes from the room resounded in the
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ears of Samuel, who stopped dry with fear on his legs. He went
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back to the room looking for the origin of those blows. When he opened
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the door, he only found the steel tables motionless and the body lay lifeless,
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resting in his state of death, confused and terrified, he returned to
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the cellar. The cold sweat scurried on his forehead, as his mind tried
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to find logical explanations for what he had just experienced within his space. With
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trembling hands, he kept his team, took a seat in the chair that
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the morgue gave him, lit the small TV and crossed his arms, watched
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a football match exhausted by all emotions and lack of sleep, his eyes began
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to close. He was carried away by the tranquility that enveloped the cellar,
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falling into a deep sleep. His breathing became slow and heavy, completely unconscious,
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as if he were now one more of the corpses. The dream,
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which seemed to be a brief break, became a nap of several hours that
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would have been interrupted by a broom falling from the warehouse of s RNS.
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He immediately looked at his watch and the morning had come quickly. He left
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the cellar to realize that he was alone in the morgue, surrounded by darkness
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and complete solitude, which caused a chill to run through his spine. He
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wasn' t convinced he was alone in the morgue. He hoped that at
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least one guard or a doctor should be there, so he began to walk
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the deserted corridors looking for someone who might be his companion. However, I
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couldn' t find anyone. Instead, he only found the echo of his
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own steps and noises that in the light of day seemed insignificant at that time
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were amplified throughout the morgue filling in air with a very heavy vibration. As
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he walked, he found himself in front of the living room. Out of
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curiosity, he popped his head. The interior was in complete darkness, except
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for a single light that illuminated the interior. This light gave the dead street
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that went through the Catalepsia case. The body was still there. Seeing him,
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he felt a chill going through his entire body. I felt that the
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body would rise at any moment from the steel table. With his hasty step,
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he returned to his only refuge, to the cellar, where he would
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wait for a living soul to arrive and go home. He tried to find
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the dream again. Fortunately, he was able to make it. The TV
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was still on. The sounds of the commercials were their only company. The
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quiet dream would not last long, as the noises were present, blows on
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the steel table, steps in the corridors, hands scratching the walls and a
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deep voice complaining throughout the morgue, Samuel tried to stay in his sleep closing
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his eyes tightly. Suddenly, the presence lurking through the halls ceased to manifest
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a little calmer. He settled in his chair, opened his eyes for a
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moment, and before closing them again, he looked around and found that body
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standing right next to him, causing him to faint immediately. During his unconscious
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state, his mind began to project disturbing images, some from the past and
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others from the present. Those images showed Samuel on the day of the accident
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with his wife accompanied the stretcher where he lay dead. Only on this occasion
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she twisted imploring to be taken to the hospital, but he did not take
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it into account. She arrived at the mooring with her wife' s body
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alive and was admitted to the autopsy room, where she screamed in great pain.
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As forensic doctors began to examine every part of it. Samuel only stood
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in front of the door. Suddenly the past mixed with the present. The
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recent memory of hunger, arriving with a body full of blood. The man
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struggled to escape from that stretcher and so much was his effort that he fell
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to the floor staining everything with blood. The paramedics began to drag him into
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the room and the man refused to surrender. It was taken from the feet
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of Samuel, who was still. Witnessing everything that happened, the paramedics pulled
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the man harder, who cried out for help. Little by little, he
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let go of his feet and began to cling to the ground, leaving the
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trail of his bloody fingernails on the floor. It seemed that the message that
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all the shed blood was giving the janitor was to avoid letting his bearer die,
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but that unfortunately, he never understood and could not do anything about it.
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Those images caused Samuel to react to fainting, but he found no peace
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of mind. Hits on the steel table in the autopsy room resounded with great
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attention. Desperate. He decided to leave the love that forever took his things
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and left the cellar. He made his way out and before reaching the front
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door, he noticed that the door in the room was open with a knot
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in his throat and heart. Beating at a thousand an hour, he came
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to the door. As he looked out, he was frozen and felt his
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stomach fall off. The lifeless body was no longer on the steel table suddenly
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appeared in front of him. Samuel fell to the ground and began to be
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dragged. He held on just like the man and the blood left the mark
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on his fingernails. The wing door closed along with Samuel' s fate The
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next day. In the morning, forensic doctors found a heartbreaking scene that had
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no explanation. Exaggerated blood stains that came from Samuel' s lifeless body.
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Funny thing was that the man' s body lay on the steel bed like
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he never left that autopsy room inside the morgue. I was always an observer
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of everything related to shadows. He was a collector of dark moments that other
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people preferred to ignore. The deepest and darkest things I captured with my camera
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From a young age I was intrigued by the mysteries that surround people after death.
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My passion for photography was born out of that strange curiosity for the unknown.
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I first held a camera when I was barely ten. My father taught
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me the essentials for a young child. He took me to a garden where
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he thought I was capturing nature, the sunset birds. But it wasn'
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t like that. I was taking pictures of a bird on the floor in
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his last moments of life. At that time I knew that my destiny was
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to capture the essence of the darkness in the images, but I did not
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do it out of morbidness or some disorder, but I always saw the same
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photographs of families animal portraits. The same as always no one dared to cross
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that line between the known and the unknown. I wanted to combine the two
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things that caught my attention the most photography and shadows. After death, my
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path was taking shape over time. One night when I was already more aware
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of my future and what I wanted to do during my life, I was
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surfing the Internet in search of inspiration and suddenly I found shocking photographs of unsolved
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crime scenes, car accidents and human tragedies. Instead of feeling repulsive, I
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experienced a strange fascination for the rawness of those images, for the truth they
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showed, truths that doctors only showed through words and medical reports. The idea
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of photographing these kinds of scenes came into my mind with force like a seed
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that had been planted a long time ago and at that time began to germinate
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in the darkest space of my head. I knew I couldn' t settle
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for being a mere spectator of death. I needed to get into it,
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see it more closely, so I could understand it from within. It was
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at that moment that I decided to take a step of courage and volunteer to
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work with the emergency bodies, again, remembering that I did not do it
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for the morbid or to attract attention. It was something that really fascinated me
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and I had the burning desire to capture the raw truth, without any sort
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of filter, human existence. At their final moment, the emergency corps urgently
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needed volunteers, so they soon accepted me as part of their team. I
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began my journey into a dark world, where death and pain were the bread
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of every day. The thin line between life and death was manifested in every
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scene we were going to. My House and I have become witnesses of those
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tragedies. Paramedics who were supposed to be prepared to see such images sometimes refused
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to approach the most heartbreaking scenes they could have seen. For me, there
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was no choice. It was part of my volunteer work. These scenes were
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necessary both for research and for the precise definition of the reasons for death.
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All team members were surprised to see how, with professionalism and fear, he
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captured all those scenes. I met David, an old doctor who was the
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leader of the emergency team an n On one occasion we agreed on the route
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and we found ourselves in one of the worst scenes ever seen so far,
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a five- car car accident that left a path of destruction and pain.
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While I was looking for angles and details, he noticed how he seemed to
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be an expert in my work, so he congratulated me. He recognized me
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as one of the bravest members I' d ever met in time. David
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and I became good friends. We shared the same fascination with life and death.
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I admired my dedication to photography and I admired his courage to safeguard people
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' s lives. One time we went back to the office. After a
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long night. He approached me and told me that in the city morgue they
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needed a photographer who would take graphic evidence of the bodies entering the place.
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At first, the idea of working in the morgue stood out to me,
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causing a chill all over my body. I thought about whether I could bear
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the intensity of that environment being alone in the coldness of death. Many doubts
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began to pass through my head, but later, reflecting, I understood that
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it was a unique opportunity to explore new boundaries in the art I dominated.
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I told David that I would accept the position and the next day, first
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thing in the morning, I would be there with a firm stance. I
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headed for the Morgue, on the shores of the city. He was ready
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to start a new path, face the darkest secrets and the cruelest truths about
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those people' s death passed the first few days. It was a completely
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new experience for me. There was a big difference between what I volunteered and
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what I now do as a morgue worker. In this place I no longer
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saw newly deceased people. Now I saw only pale naked bodies. Some of
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them had calm faces as if they were sleeping in peace, but others showed
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suffering and violence. Each body was unique, each had a story to tell
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and a reason to be there. Forensics required my services as a photographer for
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the body file and as evidence that they were doing their job. He witnessed
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how the bodies opened precisely, as if it were surgery. They were looking
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for answers that could reveal the truth behind his death. The white light on
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the corpse, the sound of the instruments used, the echo that occurred when
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touching the steel table, the lifeless body, all contributed to creating a surrealist
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environment. During my time as a photographer, I looked at all kinds of
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deaths, accidents, murders, natural deaths and each face was unique. The
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months passed like water over time I got used to it and somehow everything became
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routine. Despite that, I was still doing my best as a photographer.
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I never did a bad job. One night after a long day in the
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morgue, I sat in front of my computer because I had to erase old
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photos that no longer served me. The time had come to free up space
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in the memory of the Chamber. That meant going back to the past and
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reviewing every image. Every picture passed one more shocking than another. So many
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people who died on my camera gave me a strange feeling that would take over
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me. The images of the bodies, the grotesque wounds, the faces at
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rest, those pictures seemed to take life before my eyes. Again, with
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every picture I saw was a reminder of how fragile life was, that death
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was inevitable. Even though I was used to seeing those scenarios. This time,
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seeing all those pictures caused something to change. The feeling of discomfort,
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both physically and mentally, seized me and increased each passing to the next image.
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It was as if he were on a journey in which there were only
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misfortunes and dead bodies. The pressure on each photo caused it to enter a
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state of despair. Turning off the computer, I was in the dark in
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my room. At that moment of loneliness, I knew with certainty that I
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no longer wanted to witness death. That way a desire to end that stage
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of my life was born. To relax, I decided to go to sleep
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in the morning. I' d think about getting out of that place and
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ending that chapter of my life in the dark of the night. I fell
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completely into a dream that at first was a space of peace, but soon
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it became a nightmare from which I could not escape. Me. I found
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in the morgue, in a large room where I saw every moment I had
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photographed, every death in which I had been present and, worse still,
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every body I captured with my camera. The bodies came to life. These
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bodies twisted, suffering with a lot of pain, their open wounds. They
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bled uncontrollably as they looked at me with empty, lifeless eyes. When I
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finally woke up, I was soaked in sweat and trembling with fear. That
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nightmare was the final blow to confirm that he needed to get out of that
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way. I left home determined to end this chapter of my life. When
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I came to love that I met David, who had come exclusively to talk
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to me, I needed a great favor. He said they didn' t
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have any volunteers or n o n o need someone to do the work I
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did. Before I could tell him I was about to resign, he asked
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me to help them take the photographs he had taken. Like when I was
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a volunteer. I hesitated to accept, but I thought of my friend how
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he had always supported me and opened the doors to something I was supposed to
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be passionate about. I agreed to help for this week only. David thanked
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me and said he would come back for me later. Forensic doctors also started
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talking to me had a body to analyze and needed the photographer. I went
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into the autopsy room. The doctors met a child' s body, which
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had been hit for the first time. I couldn' t resist seeing a
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corpse, let alone a minor. The doctors asked me if I was feeling
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well, because they noticed me very scared and with all the fear of the
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world, I decided to face the situation. I swallowed the fear and continued
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to do what I had always done, photographing corpses. So I continued with
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the bodies that arrived during the day. In the afternoon, David came to
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pick me up just as we had met. I got in the ambulance between
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talks. The point came up that I was already tired of that job.
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I didn' t want to witness bodies or anything related to that anymore.
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My friend made me one of the comments that would leave me very upset.
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He told me that, unfortunately, even though we stopped doing this, we
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could never regain the peace we had before. It' s something that would
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mark us for life. When he agreed to be a doctor, he was
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aware of all the images he would look at for the rest of his life
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and still stood firm in his position. He said it was normal to feel
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that kind of thing, to want to give up and leave everything behind,
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but we couldn' t change anything anymore what I did was those words.
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They made me reflect for a moment and let me know that, unfortunately those
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images would accompany me for the rest of my life and so I accepted my
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path that I had built myself since I was a child. With that talk
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I had with David, I continued to photograph bodies of corpses. I didn
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' t quit the job I had at the morgue. On the contrary,
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I took it as inspiration to improve and be braver. I spent the next
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few days of the week helping David volunteer. When they finally found a volunteer,
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I returned to my usual schedule inside the morgue. When the doctors arrived,
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they were examining a body. I immediately began to do my job.
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They opened the body and began to search for traces that would tell them what
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was the cause of the loss. With great courage, I captured every moment,
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the body of the immobile man had a look that gave that it penetrated
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the doctors and me. Unlike the last time I was there, now I
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no longer felt any fear. Again I became the same brave boy without fear
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of seeing heartbreaking scenes. Apparently, everything was back to the way it used
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to be, the routine that used to begin to overwhelm me. Now I
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had become as normal to get up every day wondering what kind of body I
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would see during the day. Everything was going on in a normal way.
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The night was falling my friend David would arrive with a body of a man
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who would have died for strange reasons. He asked me, as soon as
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forensics knew what the cause of death was, to warn him immediately he went
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down with the stretcher and the body was transferred to the autopsy room, where
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the doctors waited. When the body was uncovered, it had a serious face,
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but with suffering, as if the person was aware that his final hour
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had arrived and was accepted with fear. Forensics started opening the body, made
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their notes to draw their conclusions. I, for one, started taking the
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evidence. The first pictures came out correctly, but when they were taken,
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the man' s gaze was fixed on the camera lens. That look started
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to make me a little nervous. I began to feel that fear again,
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that fear that caused the photos not to have a good result. I failed
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several times until again space was full. I told the doctors I needed to
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free up memory space or I couldn' t keep taking the evidence. They
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told me to do it quickly. I ran to the computer at the reception,
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just like last time I started taking a photo. I remembered the past
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again and the trauma came back to me. I got to the pictures of
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the body. Newly arrived, these looked blurry, but the body' s
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look was in good quality. It was easy to tell. His eyes stuck
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inside me. I kept going until I got to a photo where I found
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something strange. A black stain had crossed between the chamber and the body.
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It was strange to me, since something like that had never happened before.
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That black spot caused me too much curiosity. The following pictures of the body
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also showed up the stain, so I deleted all those photos as there were
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no more recent photos. Automatically, the computer returned me to the oldest,
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where I took the surprise that the stain had been transported. To those photos
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I kept moving forward and in all the photos the stain appeared and grew bigger
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and bigger. Forensic doctors rushed out of the room saying they urgently needed them
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on the road. A strong car crash had happened and they were the only
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doctors nearby. I asked what it was like with the body, to which
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they answered to take the necessary photos and then save it in the freezer.
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Upon returning from their work, they will continue to review. I was completely
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alone in the morgue. I looked back at the computer. There was no
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stain on the photos anymore. At the time I knew something was wrong inside
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the place. To make sure the stain was no longer found, I began
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to re- check the photos inside the Chamber. These did not present the
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anomaly, but they had something even worse. As each image passed, it
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seemed to come to life, as the suffering of each victim of death was
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felt intensely. I went through each one and made the journey back to the
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past. The nightmare I once had was presenting itself in reality suddenly noises.
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Very strong blows were heard in the autopsy room to the objects complained. I
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was sure someone was there, so I decided to get out of there immediately,
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trying to turn off my camera a photo that would leave me icy,
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appear on the screen. It was me without trace of life, lying on
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one of the steel stretchers with scars that had opened my whole body. I
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ran to the autopsy room, where was the body that had unleashed all chaos.
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As I entered just like the nightmare, all the pictures I took came
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to life. I found on the stretchers all the bodies I photographed, from
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adults to minors. Those pale bodies without life for some very strange reason,
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again had life in their heart. They let me see their anger, their
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thirst for revenge for desecrating their rest. When they were captured by my camera,
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they all judged me with hatred. They threw themselves at me scratching my
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entire face and body, some even perforating me looking at my skin with the
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utensils forensics used. At the time of your work. I was being attacked
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by all the dead I captured inside my camera. I started screaming for help
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through fate. My friend David got scared into the living room. I held
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him tight as I told him everything that was going on. For some strange
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reason, the dead did not attack him and only stood by. My friend
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David grabbed me tightly by the arm and pulled me out of the morgue.
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Some time later I found out something. There were never such living dead.
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My friend David asked the high command of the morgue to check the security cameras
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to see what had happened. Really. On the cameras it looked like I
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started losing my head in front of the computer screen at the reception. Then
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I went to the autopsy room, where I found the body that the forensics
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were swimming pretty. For a few minutes, I stood still staring at him
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and then started having strange behaviors. I hurt myself with my hands and materials
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to open the bodies. Finally, David came to my rescue. There was
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never any attack on me. The result of seeing so many deaths, so
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many traumatizing things caused me to be insanity. That nightmare was the first sign,
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a sign I completely ignored and was now suffering the consequences. After several
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months, I finally stopped going to places where misfortunes happened and there were death
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trails. Finally, it was all over, although the dead are still attacking
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me in my nightmares. Now I find myself quieter here locked in a room
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of four dead- end walls, where I' ll wait for my final
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demise and be taken to the morgue, where they' ll take a final
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piece of evidence. La la la la, what will be the last photo
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of my entire existence. My name is Ana and I was studying the career
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of forensic doctor, a career that has guided me through the labyrinths of science
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and darkness. She was a committed student, eager to get into the secrets
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that lie hidden under her body. After death, I was about to finish
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the race. After several years of study, I would finally receive officially.
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I just needed one last thing to do. Before I finished my studies,
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I had to do my professional internships. I was very excited about the idea
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of that, as it would be my first step to the world of work.
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I wanted very much to find a good place to do them and would
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give my best effort so that, at the end of them, I would
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be hired in the place and not have much need to look for work.
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I started looking for hospitals where I could practice. I sent thousands of requests
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and waited for one of them to answer me. The days passed, no
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one answered and began to discourage me. Still, I had faith that I
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would come to an answer. One afternoon, while I was reading my cell
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phone, a notification arrived. I quickly took my cell phone, as it
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was an e- mail from one of the hospitals to which I had applied.
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My face was filled with joy when I saw that I had been accepted
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into one of them. In the mail they asked me to introduce myself the
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next week to begin with my activities. I was filled with excitement. I
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' d be working in a hospital. At first I was surprised to see
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that I would do my internship in a hospital. I wasn' t a
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nurse or a doctor. My career was totally different from safeguarding my life.
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It was to treat what happened after death, maybe in the hospital I would
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be assigned such tasks. What was important to me was that I had finally
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found a place. The days went by every time the day was closer,
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the day I would finally start applying everything I learned during my years of studying
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in the Forensics career I warned my whole family that I would be working in
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a city hospital. Several congratulated me and, at the same time, asked
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me to be careful about the environment in which I was going to be working.
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My most believing relatives told me that it would be a good option for
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me to carry a rosary with me to protect myself from any bad energy in
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the place, but I did not believe in that. The night before,
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the day before, I saved all my necessary things to arrive very early.
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On my first day, my nerves wouldn' t let me fall asleep.
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This was in uar experiencing an emotion that I had never felt before. After
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hours of sleep, the sun came out and the alarm is it' s
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time to show my forensic skills. When I arrived at the hospital, I
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was received by the manager, who first gave me a small interview. He
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wanted to find out if I had enough capabilities for the activities that I would
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be assigned. I told him I was aware of everything that led to being
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a forensic doctor, so I knew it was what needed to be done.
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The doctor, pleased with the commitment he was showing, told me that he
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would not be working in the hospital, but that he would be taken to
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the morgue which was right next to the cemetery of the city. He explained
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to me and was sincere in telling me that in the morgue there were not
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many doctors working there, only three and two guards guarding the pantheon and the
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morgue, which were connected, so it was easy to overwhelm each place.
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When I found out that I would be next to the cemetery, where all
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souls were buried, I hesitated a bit to move on. The doctor noticed
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my nervousness and told me that if I wasn' t sure, I could
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not take the position and later, when I was ready, I would be
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welcome. For a moment, I thought about it, but I also thought
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about all the way that I had already walked to finish the race, all
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the obstacles that I overcome I couldn' t back down. Now I accepted
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the position and the doctor accepted the answer and welcomed me to the team.
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In the same way, he gave me a kid, who had what it
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took to occupy that place. Inside him there were in goggles mouth covering gloves,
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but one thing that really surprised me was that there was a religious image
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which, behind her contained a prayer. I asked the doctor the reason for
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that image at n s s s s. NS. I noticed that question
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a little nervous, but immediately answered that, despite being experts in the world
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of medicine, during and after life, extra help was never badly received.
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Something reasonable was done to me, but I wasn' t quite sure.
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The doctor asked me if I was ready. He answered by stating the answer
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and told me that as soon as I got to the ambulance, it would
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transport me to the morgue, where they explained me more in detail what I
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would have to do. I sat in the main room waiting for him to
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come to the ambulance to pick me up. The hospital staff passed by me
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while they were doing their jobs. Some were coming up to talk a little
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bit, asking if I needed anything. I was responding to what I was
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doing there. I was the new practitioner in the Forensics area and I was
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waiting for the vehicle that would take me to the morgue to start my work.
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Most were surprised to hear that. Some wished me good luck and others
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asked if I had already received my religious image. After answering the question I
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questioned why, and casually everyone said the same thing. You always have to
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have extra help It started to seem strange to me the insistence of the people
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of the hospital when they wanted me to carry a religious image. Perhaps it
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was strange because I was not a believer, so I forgot that subject.
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The day was past and the ambulance was not here. I was about to
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go to the doctor' s office when, suddenly, a voice from the
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hospital entrance began to utter my name aloud. When I turned around, I
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found a man wearing a doctor' s uniform and as I approached him he
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said he was coming for me to take me to the morgue to break the
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ice. He made a little joke and told me he wouldn' t take
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me. For what everyone goes to that place, but for me to start
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my work as a forensic doctor, we both exchanged. A little laugh went
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up to the ambulance and we started the way to the morgue outside the city.
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The car went on. He went into more and more lonely streets,
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where traffic was minimal. While we were on the move, I wondered about
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my life, how I had chosen to study that career, what caught my
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attention the most, and what my plans were. When I finished my internships,
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I answered each of them with luxury of detail. The man made the
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road very pleasant. We finally got the man parked the ambulance. Kindly,
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he opened the door and helped me down. I got the kid that had
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been delivered to the hospital. He said I was very brave when I entered
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that place. Besides, she also told me never to let go of my
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religious image, something confused. I said everything would be fine. We enter
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the cemetery, a place where there is absolutely nothing to live or at least
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cannot be perceived by the naked eye. Although I did not like the idea
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of entering that place, it was necessary to do so, since both places
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were connected. The door gnashed at being opened. The morgue appeared before me
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as a space of darkness and solitude. The air felt pretty cold. Heavy.
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Immediately the pentrant odors reached my nose, which meant it was time to
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use the Cubrebocas. The grey walls showed how the years had passed over the
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Morgue. The paramedic started showing me the whole place. As we moved forward,
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I realized that there was not much staff in the place, just a
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few doctors who showed themselves to be very sharp. The man said it was
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because of the stress of work. We enter a huge room where the bodies
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rest in the metal beds waiting to be analyzed by the doctors. The cold
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felt more intense inside that room. I watched in detail everything there, every
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material they used and at that time I felt that I was prepared, as
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it didn' t cost me much to recognize every surgical tool in the place.
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As I entered the bottom of the room, I understood the reason for
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the intense cold. There were the cooling compartments where the bodies were kept waiting
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in the cold darkness to be claimed. The tour was about to end.
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Not without first showing me one of the rooms that can cause the most fear.
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That room was the place where the dead applied that famous passage of the
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Bible dust you are and into dust you will become, it was the cremation
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room, a giant furnace lay there waiting to be fed by one of the
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many bodies that would seal his life in the ashes. Finally he took me
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to where I could take short breaks, to a small room where there was
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only a comfortable armchair, as well as several books that I could read during
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the free time while we talked. One of the few doctors arrived I was
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introduced to him. The doctor left me with him to explain to me what
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he would do. I thanked him for all the attentions. The doctor,
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with a serious look, explained to me what my duties would be. Fill
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in the body file, assist him while analyzing the body and finally take the
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bodies to the compartments. Strange as it seemed, I was excited. A
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body came to the amorgue quickly. I went to get him covered in a
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sheet, took him to the autopsy room. The doctor was preparing to start
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doing his job. I put together the tools that were used and just like
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in surgery, I passed every utensil to the doctor while watching how he did
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his work in my mind took note of everything he did. We' re
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done analyzing. I filled out the file and wrote down the cause of death
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that the doctor had completed. Finally, I took the body to his refrigeration
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waiting for his family to claim it. The doctor congratulated me on my great
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performance. I' m happy for the recognition. I kept doing my best.
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That' s how my days spent inside the morgue analyzing and guarding bodies.
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Every day he brought me something new. He understood more the process of
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death and even saw how even after death the soul of the people was still
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in there, as on one occasion a man' s body arrived at the
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place. The widow of the deceased asked for her engagement ring, which had
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not been removed for twenty years and five years, to be returned immediately.
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She wanted him so that he would always remember him feeling his presence. However,
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the ring, being so long on his finger and with his hand tightly
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closed in the form of a fist, would be very difficult to remove.
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The only alternative for me was to cut off my finger. However, the
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doctor said it would not be necessary. He started talking to the corpse in
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a very nice and quiet way, as if he were still alive. He
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said his wife needed that ring so that his death wouldn' t separate him
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and so she could feel his company until they were on the same side.
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Surprisingly, the man' s fist gradually began to loosen until he could pull
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out the ring in an easy way. Surprised I asked how that was possible.
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He replied that, after all, these corpses had a soul feelings.
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They had been human beings, so talking to them sensitively was very helpful.
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Another experience I had during those days was to see how, during the autopsy
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process, a body lifted its leg. At first I was scared, but
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then I remembered that those movements were normal. Sometimes the corpses had involuntary movements
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and even produced gases with a powerful smell. The doctor told me everything was
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normal. He also said it was normal for the containers to hear blows.
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I found that strange, but he said that sometimes, when the bodies were
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already inside the compartments, they still had involuntary movements. Something confusing. I
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was continuing my work. After several bodies we analyzed, one arrived that would
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have a particular destiny. The body would enter the cremation oven. For the
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first time I' d take a body to cremate. We put the body
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on the big steel board. This body had arrived arranged the family. Apparently
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he opened it, he would have dressed in his favorite clothes. The makeup
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helped her look like she was just taking a little nap, like it was
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a bread that was about to be baked. We put the body inside the
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big oven. The doctor lit the oven and began to feel a great heat
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in the room. Similarly to the creaks of the body, being burned,
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they were heard with intensity. Suddenly it was heard how they beat the sheets
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inside the oven. I got too scared. The doctor persevered and pulled out
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his religious image. He asked me to do the same. I asked why.
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He revealed a somewhat terrifying truth to me. He said strange noises sometimes
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came from the darkest places. The bodies were complaining and most of the time,
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when a body was cremated, they seemed to complain and tried to deny
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their fate by hitting the barriers of the furnace. In addition, being close
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to the cemetery increased the heavy energies within the morgue. For all these facts.
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Everyone carried with him a religious image that, despite being a believer or
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not, in these situations was of great help. I continued with my skepticism
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and tried to calm down. Finally, the body was finally cremated. When
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we took him out, we found only ashes, which were deposited in a
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small box that would be handed over to the deceased' s family. The
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months passed. The day I would finally finish my internship I was close one
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afternoon while I was alone in the morgue. The doctor arrived in haste along
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with the hospital doctor and the paramedic. The three people arrived urgently at the
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morgue. They said there was a big problem. Supposedly a man had been
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buried alive. The paramedic said that when he raised the body, it had
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no vital signs. Similarly, the forensic medium mentioned that, when he was
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analyzing it, it showed no sign that he was still alive. And finally,
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the doctor said that after the tests carried out, which had taken time
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to arrive, they showed that the man often suffered heart attacks, which left
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him unconscious for a long time, but always managed to react. Unfortunately,
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the last heart attack he would have in the street, while he was alone,
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so the people around him thought he had died. Upon learning of the
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case, the family was told, which was quite angry with the hospital and
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the morgue. Now they demanded that the body be taken out of the cemetery
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and cremated. All desperate for the situation, we quickly headed to the cemetery,
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to the place where the body had been buried. The vibe was starting
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to feel too heavy. The us curity was beginning to cover the place.
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We got to the grave. The body was exhumed from the ground and the
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box was taken to the morgue. When we open the box, we all
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get a big surprise. The top was completely scratched. The hands of the
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body showed damage from the despair of trying to open the box. The face
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in the same way, it had an aspect of suffering. The facial expression
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of the body was disturbing. We were all amazed by what we were seeing.
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We had seen scenes of accidents, bloody bodies and even maimed, but
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nothing compared to what was in front of us. A man who was buried,
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alive and fought in vain trying to escape death. The doctor asked the
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doctor to accompany him to the hospital to clear things up with the family.
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Before he left, he told me that I would do all the work,
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from doing one last test to taking the body to the oven for cremation.
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My skin became icy when I heard these instructions, but one thing that motivated
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me was that he also said that it was up to me to keep the
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plant work very determined and courageously. I started my work as a forensic doctor
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Everyone left the morgue and I was alone in the autopsy room. I pulled
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the body out of the box to pass it to the steel table that would
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enter the big oven. When he was loaded, it was still heavy.
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It seemed like he was carrying a man who was simply deep asleep. The
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air on the spot felt heavy and my heart began to beat hard. I
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gently placed the body on the table. I tried to give the body a
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quieter posture to his hands willing to scratch I gave them a quieter way while
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he was taking it in fear. The dead body, silent groans seemed to
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come out of the mouth of the frightened corpse. I brought a stethos copio
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to check that he had no vital signs at the time of passing it.
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From his chest, he definitely had no heartbeat and, in the midst of
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complete silence, I concentrated on finding a sound that came from the heart.
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Suddenly, the body had an involuntary movement. This one got up like he
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was sitting down. I went back scared to see this and the suffering face
59:24
of the corpse impressed my mind with great courage, I returned the body to
59:30
its posture. He was clinging to lying down and it seemed that he was
59:37
still fighting death. I finally managed to put him to bed completely desperate.
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I hastened to take him once and for all into the big oven to be
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cremated. I was just finishing to give her a calm posture to her arms.
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When out of nowhere the Cadaver made more involuntary movements. His Cold hand
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held fast to my arm and his eyes opened in their entirety. I couldn
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' t help but let go of a scream that sounded loudly throughout the morgue.
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I was desperate as I could get the body to release me. I
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took the steel table and rushed it into the room, where the big oven
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was. Quickly enter the room and run to light the oven. At that
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point everything started to get tense. The complaints from the body were ringing more
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and more, so I took the table and put it on the way to
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the oven. This road was pretty short, but right then it became eternal
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to me as fast as I was going. It almost came into the oven
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and the heat from it felt stronger and stronger. As I approached, the
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body began to have several involuntary movements, which, despite being small, filled
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with fear all my being I began to put the body into the oven,
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which inside was on fire. The feet began to enter and barely felt the
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warmth of the flower. The body complained more intensely as if it had returned
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to life. I no longer knew if it was the product of my imagination
1:01:07
or what was happening, but to put an end to it, I continued
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to enter the body into the oven. Half the body had entered, but
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it was still complaining. However, there was no turning back and at that
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moment of despair, for the first time I became a believer. I took
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out the religious image that had been given to me since the beginning, but
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it was too late when I felt it least. The corpse took my body
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with force and angryly took me with him to the Oven, where I would
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find my destiny in the midst of the flames of the Great Oven, inside
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the morgue, in a dark city. Paul, an ordinary man of calm
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but tired appearance, lived a life without any meaning. It had been a
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maze for him, a maze of promises, broken and dreams vanished through time,
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dreams and goals that had frozen to fulfill, but which, unfortunately,
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never reached. All this bad streak would be mixed with his professional life for
1:02:16
months that he couldn' t find a job. It seemed that everything was
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against him every day that passed carried the weight of those disappointments on his bent
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shoulders. As he walked with each step he desperately sought a way out,
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something that would take him out of that hole in which he was trapped without
1:02:37
being able to escape. One afternoon, as he walked through those desolate streets,
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he found in an old post a torn ad about to be carried by
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the wind. This announcement seemed to be the hope I had been looking for
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so long. However, the announcement was not very encouraging. You' re
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looking for an assistant for the love you local. Those discolored words filled Paul
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with chills, who questioned his need to find work. But remembering all the
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bad streak that had passed, he could not let that opportunity pass without another
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option within his reach, He made the decision to go to the place in
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search of the position offered in the middle of the night that had just fallen.
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He arrived at the dark place where the dead bodies were received and preserved
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for autopsy, burial or cremation. Upon arriving at the place and entering the
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waiting room, he immediately managed to feel a heavy air accompanied by a penetrating
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aroma. He took a seat on an armchair that, as the little sound
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was sitting, was rumbling all over the room. The place paid tribute to
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its purpose, a dead space without any sound, only the air that bore
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the smell of those bodies that had lost signs of life. He started thinking
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about what his life would be like in case he worked there. To his
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head it came that if the atmosphere in the room was already heavy, then
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inside the room, where he would perform his tasks, it would be even
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stronger. He tried to forget about that idea, as he would first have
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to be accepted from an office. The squealing of the door echoed throughout the
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room and the director of the morgue, a man with a cold face,
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with a penetrating look and a grave voice, welcomed Paul. He asked the
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reason for his visit, believing he was there because of something related to the
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bodies, but he did not. The boy commented that he had seen the
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job announcement. The man, a little surprised, confessed that he had forgotten
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that vacancy, since he was several months old, but no one had been
1:04:45
interested in such work. To his luck, he was still available and the
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man immediately hired him and began to explain the tasks he would have to perform.
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He would be in charge of preparing the bodies for autopsy, commenting on
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forensic findings and keeping the place in order. When he had finished explaining,
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he asked how everything explained seemed to Paul. He didn' t see much
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science at work. He only asked when he would start working. The man
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replied that tomorrow he would show up for his first day back home. He
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thought his life would improve thanks to the income he had just found. Despite
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being a different job than everyone he had ever had, he was willing to
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give the maximum the next day. He woke up early and enlisted to start
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a new routine with a positive attitude. He went to the place where life
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and positivism were not so common. Even though the sun was in its utmost
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splendor, the shadows surrounded the place causing it to enter into a gloomy darkness.
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Pablo was received by the manager, gave him gloves, a robe,
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and a mouth cover. L took him to the ventuary brine, where he
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showed him the space where he could keep his things. Sitting on a bench,
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he was preparing for the working day, which would be a long one.
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He approached a mirror to look at himself, to mentalize that he was
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about to receive lifeless people. He gave a deep breath and rubbed his face
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intensely and left the locker room to go to the space where all the bodies
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remained prepared. Upon entering he met another person who was doing his work,
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a man focused on his work, ignoring anything around him, but who immediately
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noticed Paul' s arrival. He said that he had notified him about his
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arrival, and likewise, he told him that he was happy to have a
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companion. It had been a while since the last worker had resigned. The
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companion explained in detail the tasks he would have to perform, which would be
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to receive the body, to collect the data that the emergency bodies had received,
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as well as the details of the cause of death. Only that would
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do, as the companion would be in charge of reviewing further, as he
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had more advanced knowledge. Finally, he took him to another room, where
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there were several large compartments. Paul, analyzing each of them, asked for
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what these compartments were used for. The man replied that there they kept bodies
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that were not recognized. It was common for some to fail to be claimed
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by family members or someone else. Then they were stored there for a few
1:07:40
days. If no one ever recognized him. Unfortunately, they were taken to
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the mass grave of the city cemetery to rest with the other deceased who were
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never claimed by their family They both returned to the room while teaching him all
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the material that would be used. An ambulance was heard to open its doors.
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Apparently, the first body of the day had arrived. Pablo got very
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nervous. He had thought of what he was going to see, but he
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likewise did not feel fully prepared. The man noticed his nerves and asked him
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to calm down. The body came covered with a white sheet. Paul,
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with his hands shaky slowly discovered it. The paramedics realized it was their first
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time in this field. As he uncovered it, he saw a body with
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a face of suffering, open eyes and a body full of wounds. He
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was totally shocked by what he had just seen. The paramedics said in the
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form of a joke and we already cleaned all the blood laughing, began to
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give the necessary information Pablo despite being shocked, did not want to look weak
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and seriously documented all the details provided as people involved family. What had happened.
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Apparently, the man had been violently murdered, as the marks on his
1:09:03
body appeared to be of a sharp sharp object. Upon completion of collection,
1:09:11
he proceeded to strip all the accessories and clothing that the person was wearing.
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Every toucher of the body felt completely cold and could not help but imagine that
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person standing behaving like a normal person alive. His companion asked him if the
1:09:28
body was ready, as time progressed, it began its decomposition process. Paul
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took the stretcher to the man, who, normally, opened the parts where
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he had been stabbed. He was surprised that he treated the body as if
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it were a piece of meat that was about to be cooked. Noting Paul
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’ s surprise, he said that after doing this for years one gets used
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to it and loses sensitivity. He gave his conclusions and asked Paul to get
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in touch with the rust family. That had been his first body analyzed on
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his first day of work. Despite having witnessed very strong images, he managed
1:10:10
to cope with it so he was ready to receive more bodies and continue his
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work with the following bodies arriving. Although it was hard for him to believe
1:10:21
that they were lifeless people, he adapted little by little and during free times
1:10:27
when there was no body to receive. Both workers held conversations about their lives
1:10:33
and, as they had arrived there, a good working relationship was being built.
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The night was falling Paul' s shift was about to end. His
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companion told him that he had been very lucky to be assigned to the morning
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shift and not the morning shift. The other employees commented that during those hours
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the atmosphere felt even heavier. Less than an hour later when the ambulance arrived,
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the paramedics got out of the vehicle, but this time there was not
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a voice alone breaking in tears, resounding all over the place. It was
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a woman who suffered from that body. Paul, in haste, received the
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body and when he discovered it, understood why. That woman was crying in
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an inconsolable way. The body was of a small one who, according to
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witness statements for doctors and the mother, had been run over by a speeding
1:11:30
car. The pain led her into the room, where Paul was. She
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threw herself over her son' s body to hold him tightly. Denying her
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loss, the workers tried to calm the woman, took her away from the
1:11:46
body to get her out of the room. Paul was left with a heartbreaking
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image, a mother with her clothes stained with blood, completely weeping eyes and
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beside her, her son shattered by that Ur accident that took his life.
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A silence invaded the whole place for a moment, but a doorbell broke it.
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Paul’ s turn would have come to an end without words for what
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he had just witnessed. He left work on his way home. Days passed
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with time. The heartbreaking wounds and disfigured faces ceased to disturb Paul. Little
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by little. He became insensitive to the brutality of death, but within him
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there was still a feeling of empathy for the victims and the misfortunes lived.
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One night, the place was covered by darkness and silence. Not many bodies
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had arrived during the day. It had been a quiet day. Both partners
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were talking quietly. When a body finally arrived at the morgue. As John
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entered, his companion felt a strange feeling, a feeling he had not felt
1:12:55
since the first day he had come to work. The paramedics put the body
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on the table. Paul approached more slowly than usual, a little shaky because
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of the sensation that came to him. Seeing that body come in. He
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discovered it delicately and every person who raised the sheet could feel a frosty skin
1:13:14
through the cloth of the clothes the body wore. It was then that he
1:13:18
discovered the body completely and found himself with the look of the corpse, which
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was very traumatic, since his eyes were open and staring forward, Paul had
1:13:28
never seen a body that way. Normally all those who arrived had their eyes
1:13:35
closed or abated with fear within him continues to do his job. I strip
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the body of his clothes. Another surprise came when he noticed that he had
1:13:45
no signs of violence, no visible wound that could explain the cause of his
1:13:50
death. A strange vibration enveloped the body that was transmitted to all people inside
1:13:58
the room. Paul in ten the nr understand what was happening. He called
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his partner who had more knowledge so that he could draw some conclusions. He
1:14:08
started to check his body, but he couldn' t understand either. They
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both turned to the paramedics for answers, but only received shrugs. They found
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him in the middle of the street, in front of a vacant lot the
1:14:25
employees murmured. Some say that after he got off the ground, he fell
1:14:29
unconscious, but we' re not sure what happened. The body was just
1:14:32
there cold and without a soul claiming his name. The paramedics proceeded to leave
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leaving doubt about that man. The specialist, with the little information provided,
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decided that the body did not need to be opened. There are no signs
1:14:50
of trauma or signs of violence. It' s like it just went off.
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He proceeded to cover him with the sheet and asked Paul to take him
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away to shelter him in one of the containers. He asked what would happen
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to him and they replied that they would wait a few days for someone to
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come to reclaim the body in another way, this would be sent to the
1:15:14
mass grave of the cemetery. While writing the details of the body, he
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felt a strange feeling. He felt the presence of the corpse at his side,
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a cold and silent presence observing the filling of the leaf. At the
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same time, the body' s gaze came to his mind with its eyes
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wide open. He began to feel intimidated by that situation. He took the
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steel stretcher, where he rested his body to keep it. Upon entering the
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room, where the unrecognised corpses remained, he felt a great chill. That
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room was in complete darkness, only a very dim light that allowed at least
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to walk in the darkness. Silence took hold of the atmosphere and Paul,
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nervously at the a la a la a la, opened a compartment and did
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what he never thought he would carry a lifeless body so he could lock it
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up. Those moments were eternal for Paul. He closed the door of the
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compartment and rushed out of that room. Upon leaving he looked at his watch
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and realized that his turn was about to end, so he began to store
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all the material that had been used during the day. As the time of
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his departure arrived, the manager rushed in saying that that night he would have
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to cover the morning shift, since the other two employees would have left emergency
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and, likewise, his partner would have to accompany him to check a body
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outside the city, so he would be completely left alone in the morgue.
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When he heard those words, he felt a great hole in his stomach.
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He could not refuse such an order, for he needed that work. He
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took out all the necessary material again. His companion approached him and told him
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that, in case more bodies arrived, he would do his normal work,
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but then he would have to guard them in the compartments and the next day
1:17:09
he would check them in detail. Both left the morgue, the doors were
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closed, and Paul was in complete solitude. Everything was going without any problems.
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While I was reading a newspaper. The ambulance tires were heard and the
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doors opened and the paramedics came down with a woman' s body. As
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they counted the details of the deceased, they realized that she was alone.
1:17:35
They intended to stay with him longer so that he would not be alone in
1:17:41
that place. However, his radios soon sounded, notifying that an emergency had
1:17:45
to be taken care of, so they quickly left the place. He began
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to do his usual job of stripping the body of his objects and filling in
1:17:57
the file. As he did so, he began to feel a strange section
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presence. It came from the room where they were guarding the bodies. It
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felt like someone was watching from the darkest part of the room, but decided
1:18:10
to ignore that feeling. He continued to fill out the file. At the
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end, he knew the next thing he had to do, which filled him
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with a little fear to take that woman’ s body into the compartments.
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He started walking slowly, opened a compartment and put the woman' s body
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in. He left the room and as he was outside, he heard murmurs
1:18:33
coming from the darkness, refused to look back and went on his way.
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He left the stretcher and went to the main room. The dream began to
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enter Paul' s body. Inside the waiting room he leaned on an armchair
1:18:46
with the radio on to crash. His eyes closed slowly. After a few
1:18:54
minutes he fell asleep. In that the radio began to have interference and even
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with its eyes closed. He looked at where the radio was and could see
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the figure of a man standing right in front of the radio, as if
1:19:09
he was the one who was changing the station from the chair jump and opened
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his eyes completely, but there was no one and curiously, the radio returned
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to reproduce normally. He attributed that to his brain, which was still inactive
1:19:24
due to sleep, he got up and started walking down the corridors to forget.
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As he walked through the lonely corridors, a strange vibrating took hold of
1:19:34
him with every step he took, every time he walked further away from his
1:19:39
work area. The murmurs were heard more and more loudly, as if someone
1:19:43
were speaking in the distance the fear began to go into Paul. Silence and
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murmuring were terrifying. The chill ran through his body. He walked back to
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the living room, but the noises didn' t stop. He was about
1:19:59
to enter the room, from where they came with fear and trembling hands.
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He took the cold door handle and when he was about to turn it open,
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the paramedics entered with one more body. He calmed down a bit,
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he wouldn' t have to go into the room alone anymore, but the
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paramedics left anyway. Paul was again in the same situation, only in the
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fourth, accompanied by a lifeless body. He did not let fear intimidate him
1:20:28
and began to strip him of his belongings. As the murmurs did, they
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began to hear in the room, where the bodies were guarded. Paul looked
1:20:38
quickly toward that direction, but he was only in complete darkness. He continued
1:20:44
to do his job and again came the feeling that someone was close. From
1:20:48
there. He tried to keep calm, but could not accommodate the body to
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be covered and taken to the container room. While touching the cold skin of
1:20:59
the body, it was heard as someone opened a container. He immediately reacted
1:21:04
and stared, trying to figure out what was going on. He found something
1:21:09
terrifying. The shadow of a man standing in the middle of the darkness was
1:21:14
startled and what made him react was that he felt the body' s hand
1:21:17
sliding over his frightened arm turned and looked at the corpse, which had its
1:21:24
eyes wide open. But in a second he went from looking out into nowhere
1:21:28
to staring at Paul. He covered the body with the sheet and in fear
1:21:32
inside him, rushed to take it to the container. Upon entering, the
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rims of the stretcher gnashed even more intensely, rumbling throughout the room. When
1:21:42
he turned on the lights, he realized that one of the containers was open.
1:21:46
It was the mystery man' s container full of fear. He looked
1:21:50
around. When he turned around, he found face to face with that corpse,
1:21:55
just as he had seen it last time. Paul vanished. When he
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reacted, he was in a completely dark and cold place. He was motionless
1:22:04
and felt something squeezed him and he wouldn' t let him move. With
1:22:09
much effort he managed to jidar his head and saw the face of the corpse
1:22:13
with open eyes and a long smile. Paul tried to move to ask for
1:22:17
help, but it was useless. His fate was sealed. It was to
1:22:23
die there because of the lack of air and end up next to that corpse
1:22:27
inside the mass grave. Stories written and adapted by Andrea Lezama