What a Way to Go...

It sounds like Justice Scalia, who died alone in a luxury room on a ranch in a rugged deadly looking region of Texas, didn't get any special consideration in the handling of his final remains..  He was treated, "like another body found by hunters in the desert."

It appears hours passed after his death was reported, and even then, nobody bothered to come out to the remote location and he was confirmed dead of natural causes ... over the phone by one Cinderela Guevera.

I sure hope for the country's sake, they perform an official autopsy somewhere once he is brought back to civilization.  Afterall, we've all read Margaret Truman's Capital Crimes series, right?

What better place to bump someone off than a large room, in a big ranch, where the powerful player is staying alone, on a planned visit?  A region where, apparently, they have so few resources that they can declare someone dead of natural causes... over the phone.

Once they entered the spacious room, it took no medical training, Mr. Poindexter said, to recognize that Justice Scalia was dead.

Mr. Poindexter called a hospital and, without identifying Justice Scalia, reported what had happened.

Around 1:15 p.m. on Saturday, a phone call from one Presidio County justice of the peace to another was not out of the ordinary: There had been a death in the remote Texas county of fewer than 7,000 residents, and someone was needed to perform an inquest.

“No identity or clue was given that this was not another body found by hunters in the desert,” David Beebe, a justice of the peace, wrote in an email Saturday night, after he learned that Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court had been the subject of the planned inquest.

Judge Beebe, who did not oversee the inquest because of another commitment, said that the other justice of the peace had been in the middle of another official matter, and that County Judge Cinderela Guevera had ultimately pronounced Justice Scalia dead by telephone and “ruled it natural causes based on credible information.”

 I wonder too about the report that he was found peacefully in bed, hands folded, sheets unrumpled.
On the bathroom floor, from a stroke or heart attack, would have sounded more credible, I think...