Life lessons from a coroner

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Dr. Leon Kelly’s nighttime routine includes a nightly message from work: a text detailing the count and manner of death of the deceased in any of 20 Colorado counties Kelly serves as chief medical examiner.

The text serves as prep for the next day’s workload:

“35 year-old, motorcycle accident… 50 year-old found dead in bed, multiple gunshot wounds… 43 year-old, fentanyl found nearby…”

Kelly, the coroner for El Paso County, admitted that it’s not the most pleasant text to receive before bed, but after 17 years working in forensic pathology, he has learned to compartmentalize his emotions long enough to get a needed night’s sleep.

“There’s no surprise that at the coroner’s office, there’s no happy endings, right? Nobody’s saved,” said Kelly. “But out of figuring out what happened and what went wrong, there’s healing and hope and change that comes from it. And there’s an incredible amount of meaning and purpose and satisfaction in that.”

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