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“The killer, Stephen Paddock, holed up inside his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, which MGM owns, and then fired into the crowd at a country music festival below. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.” NYT: MGM Agrees to Pay Las Vegas Shooting Victims Up to $800 Million. (Because we know it’s not the guns that kill people, it’s the hotels…)

+ “They do work that most of us would find unbearable: examining and collecting dead bodies, notifying families of the newly deceased, assisting with autopsies. Coroners are often depicted as frumpy gray-haired men, antisocial and drawn to the dead because of some reluctance to connect to the living. But the field is now overwhelmingly female—in Clark County, well over 85 percent of the employees are women. The death examiners I’ve met are charming, sociable, and motivated by a deep sense of empathy.” GQ’s Ann Givens on the death investigators who witnessed the atrocities of the Vegas shooting, then had to grapple with the difficult task of healing themselves: Everything That You’re Feeling Is Okay.