Pathos

[John]

Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated.

I = pathologist;
you = grieving next-of-kin;
soldiers = buttered fingers of toast. Yum.

Often front line professionals are accused of treating their charges as matter-of-fact. Well, black humour is a coping strategy.

But they are real people with real feelings, yet you can't shout back at the grieving that you know what it's like. It may look like a callous production line from accident scene to hospital bed/covid ward to trolley to slab. But it's not. We hurt as well.

I suppose I was trying not to say what I didn't want to explain...

I'll have a re-think.

Cheers.