TV Yes, there is sometimes laughed in her job. “If someone is going to slip on the place of the crime, for example,” says Diona D’hondt (31) ‘Wetsdokters’ on VTM. If you’re already as coroner but is better to not for an easily frightened: “What we are doing, is really the dirtier work.”
The beauty of her job is the variety, they will find themselves. During the consultations, examines law doctor Diona D’hondt, for example, or people who are standing are held in the traffic, effectively have a problem with alcohol or drugs. And if someone is beaten, she represents the injuries. “I detect traces of sexual aggression and when someone unexpectedly dies during an operation, lint I will go out or there is a medical error has happened. And then there are the afstappingen. When a suspicious death, I go on site for the initial findings. If further research will follow, I do an autopsy.”
Where do you get the greatest satisfaction from?
If there is anything I can help to resolve, that feels good. Because I know how much that is for the next of kin means.
Blind violence, sexual abuse, murder. Where you cross that evening?
I talk at home about work: I am bound by my professional secrecy. As a woman me during the day has told about a rape, I think there in the evening, of course. But once at home I try to be there especially for my friend and three-yearold daughter, Amaryllis.
motherhood, your job is emotionally difficult?
(nods) Sometimes I examine children who died of ‘cot death’. When you get home, one of exactly the same age, sleep you that week less and go more often to check if everything is okay. The same with victims of abuse. As a mom it is difficult to understand that someone is not giving love to one’s own child. On the other hand, motherhood is useful, because I can better estimate whether a story that is told is true. If a father says his child out of the seat is rolled, I know he’s lying. Because this is a baby not a serious skull fracture.
will get Used to it a corpse to be seen?
A dead body at the place of the crime is more difficult than on the table in a autopsieruimte. On the spot you are confronted with the story that has just played. A dead body in the morgue is just… a body.
Is there ever laughed at your workplace?
If someone is going to slip on the place of the crime, there is laughing, yes. Or if someone scares during an opening because there are maggots popping up. (ha-ha) Insects survive the refrigerator in the morgue. Initially, that are still run by the cold, but after a while you’ll see that again come to life. That is pretty funny.
What do you find yourself the most difficult part of your job?
to view a Movie of the facts. When I do the deed with their own eyes see, the aggression, and the powerlessness of the victim, turns my stomach.
