Morge

About this episode

The episode explores the experiences of a Filipina immigrant working in a hospital morgue during the Duterte era, highlighting her encounters with victims of extrajudicial killings.

Filipina immigrant "Interpreter" describes her time assisting at a hospital morgue during the violent Duterte era, and her ghostly encounters with the victims of EJK (extrajudicial killings). This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated R. Morge contains murder, corpses, child death, hospital horror, police brutality, fascism, minor alcoholism, mentions of matricide and patricide, and death in an elevator. Transcript here. Someone Dies In This Elevator - Morge was written by Motzie Dapul, and features Motzie Dapul as The Interpreter, and Nathan Lunsford as Father Corrhyn. Theme music by Trace Callahan. This episode is dedicated to Dr. Raquel Fortun. Public domain background music from "A Vintage Christmas (Christmas songs from the 1890s - 1920s) (full album)" compiled by @NaTaS- on Youtube. *Morge is the Filipino word for Morgue Follow us @SDITEpod on Tumblr! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Guests: Motzie Dapul, Nathan Lunsford

Topics covered

• extrajudicial killings
• ghost encounters
• Filipina immigrant
• hospital morgue
• Duterte era
• police brutality
• death

Keywords

• morgue
• Duterte
• EJK
• ghosts
• hospital
• murder
• corpses
• police brutality
• Filipina immigrant
• death in an elevator

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Someone Dies In This Elevator, Megaphone

Books & works: A Vintage Christmas (Christmas songs from the 1890s - 1920s)

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