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In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist.
Determining when a person has definitively died has proven difficult. Initially, death was defined as occurring when breathing and the heartbeat ceased, a status still known as clinical death. [12] However, the development of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) meant that such a state was no longer strictly irreversible. [13]
An unnatural cause of death results from an external cause, typically including homicides, suicides, accidents, medical errors, alcohol intoxications and drug overdoses. [6] [7] Jurisdictions differ in how they categorize and report unnatural deaths, including level of detail and whether they are considered a single category with subcategories, or separate top-level categories.
New data analysis of U.S. mortality reveals what are the causes of death in each state from 1980 to 2014.
Legal death is the recognition under the law of a particular jurisdiction that a person is no longer alive. [1] In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death (variously called) or the identification of a corpse is a legal requirement for such recognition.
Pathologists determine the cause of death through postmortem examination or autopsy. There are three stages of death investigation: examination, correlation, and interpretation. Deaths where there is an unknown cause and those considered unnatural are investigated.
Aspiring comedian Dex Carvey, son of Dana Carvey, died of a lethal combination of drugs including fentanyl, the Los Angeles County medical examiner determined.
We are very determined and not giving up." The Greenbergs have been entangled in legal battles with the government ever since their daughter's death, fighting the determination that it was a ...