Rashad Evans

I had just graduated from Michigan State and I was working at a hospital. I was a security guard, I worked at night. Part of my job was putting bodies in the morgue and doing that kind of thing. I used to put bodies in the morgue and take them out. When I got done doing that at the hospital, in the morning I would work out before I went to sleep.

American Athlete

Dustin Yellin

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.

American Artist

Dolly Parton

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

American Singer

Pawel Pawlikowski

Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me.

Polish Director

Beck

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

American Musician

Pete Hamill

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.

American Journalist

Jean Cocteau

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

French Director

The word 'morgue' often relates to death and can give a somber tone to sentences.

Grave Context

'Morgue' isn't solely used in crime contexts; it's any facility holding the deceased for various reasons.

Not Just Crime

When using 'morgue', be mindful that discussions involving death can be sensitive or upsetting to some.

Sensitive Topic

In journalism, 'morgue' refers to a resourceful archive, not related to death.

Journalistic Usage

A newspaper morgue can be a treasure trove of historical events and societal changes.

Historical Insight

A morgue can contain various documents like photographs, clippings, and magazines, not just newspapers.

Not Just Papers

 more commonly than the mothers who were giving birth in a nearby ward there was a big difference between these two wards in the first one doctors and medical students who spent part of the day in the morgue and the rest of the day in deliveries they were passing these germs

In the 19th Century,...

 of the corpse a cherry pink. In fact, people who see bodies after someone has died of a carbon monoxide death, they'll often talk about how healthy they look. So your poor, pale corpse could not have been killed by this gas. You take the body back to the morgue,

Early forensics and...

 So to start answering this question, I wanted to gather some information. I went down to the sub-sub-basement level of the New York Times Building, to the archives. We call it the morgue. And I asked for some guidance from our archivist there.

How we're honoring...

 continue so i started working in the local newspapers and developing my film because there's not much places to develop i i was developing my film in in the darkroom in the morgue more because where you keep that dead

The Arctic Story Hunter...

 A bedroom, the place where people share intimacy, where life itself is conceived, became a battlefield. A mosque in northern Bosnia was destroyed by Serbian artillery and was used as a makeshift morgue.

My photographs bear...

 Many were killed in a very short space of time. The reception of the Hotel Ukraine became a makeshift morgue. There were lines of bodies laid in the street. And there was blood all over the pavements.

Anastasia Taylor-Lind:...

 My particular favorite was a blonde woman from the Deep South who eventually admitted to me that she was really a necrophiliac, and had taken this job after she got in trouble down at the morgue.

How the worst moments in...

 the morgue before the woman that I found she stuck with the lifestyle the street life and the streets devoured her pretty much you know it's never good news coming down here if I find a match

Women Behind Bars PIPE...

 seeing that happen I got tired of seeing young people young people winding up in the morgue young people riding up in the prison industrial complex which I call

Break out of food...

 handcuffed, blindfolded. I was terrified. So was my family, who started looking for me in hospitals, police stations and even morgues. After my disappearance,

Morgue

Grave Context

Not Just Crime

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