A Matter of Life and Death by Sue Armstrong

Author:Sue Armstrong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2010-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

No one approaches any investigation with a blank mind. Everybody comes with some preconceived notion. The important thing is to recognise what your preconceived notions are and to handle them in an appropriate way and not to be blinded by them. Sometimes the preconceived notions are very reasonable. If you were to go to a grave site in Bosnia and you were to find 40 bodies, your immediate suspicion must be that this was a mass killing as part of a genocide – that would be entirely reasonable. And you would plan on the basis of that, but it may be that you would discover otherwise in the course of your investigation. It may be that these were natural deaths in a hospital, which happened to have been buried in a mass grave because of the circumstances of the war. You would have planned on the basis of your initial impression, and must keep an open mind in relationship to the facts that you discover, changing your plan as new facts come to light.

So have you sometimes found that your initial conjecture was completely confounded when you investigated a body?

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