what's coroner?

Answer 1

A Coroner is a State licensed medical doctor who is in charge of processing dead bodies and heading any investigations into the cause of death.

Answer 2

They work in a funeral home and is elected to be county coroner to go and pronounce people dead at the scene without having to be at the hospital with a doctor.

Answer 3

The coroner is the one who goes and looks at dead bodies, determines cause of death and does autopsys at the morge

Answer 4

a coroner is usually an elected public officer whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes- basically he's a medical examiner.

Answer 5

It's a publicly elected official who examines deaths that aren't due to natural causes, although he (usually) doesn't do the actual medical examination part of the investigation, just the administrative parts.
Kind of like the sheriff who is elected and doesn't actually get out on the street to do the law enforcement.

Answer 6

a coroner is sum1 who looks at dead bodies. like an autopsy

Answer 7

a coroner does autopsies on those who have died in suspicious circumstances to determine the cause of their death......

Answer 8

A public officer whose primary function is to investigate by inquest any death thought to be of other than natural causes. coronership

Answer 9

The guy who picks up dead body's from crime scenes, etc. Also does autopsy on the body

Answer 10

A person who does autopsy on dead people.