Top Forensic Pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd breaks down autopsy scenes in film & TV

Britain’s top Forensic Pathologist Dr. Richard Shepherd breaks down scenes from movies and TV shows that depict autopsies, including ’Silence of the Lambs’, ’House’, ’Se7en’ and ’Men In Black’. His new book The Seven Ages Of Death is out now: Dr Richard Shepherd, Britain’s top forensic pathologist, has spent a lifetime close to the dead. As a medical detective, each autopsy he carries out is its own unique investigation, uncovering the secrets not only of how a person died, but also of how they lived. Through twenty-four of his most intriguing, enlightening and never-before-told cases, Dr Shepherd shares autopsies that span the seven ages of human existence, and have taught him as much about the marvels of life as the inevitability of death. From old to young, from murder to misadventure, and from illness to accidental death, each of these bodies has something to reveal: about human development, about mortality, about its owner’s life story, about justice and even about Shepherd h