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Several years ago, Donna Francart started volunteering for a community crisis response team. She became aware of her innate compassion in dealing with difficult situations, which ultimately led her to a new line of work as a deputy coroner. Francart shares her experiences, documented through years of journaling, in her memoir, I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner. In this episode of Watching America, Dr. Alan Campbell speaks to Francart about the emotional and physical challenges of working with the dead--and most importantly, the friends and family left behind. I've Seen Dead People has been adapted into a screenplay by Frank Burmaster and Gary Revel, with plans to develop it for a feature film.

This interview originally aired in 2021. Listen to the interview. 

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