# Coroners and “The Big Kill” 

Spring 2008 • Regulation 

By [Veronique de Rugy](https://www.cato.org/people/veronique-derugy) 

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##### [Veronique de Rugy](/people/veronique-derugy)

George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University 

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