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| Manner
Of Death |
| Forensic pathologists provide valuable
information about the manner of death after the autopsy has been performed.
There are four main categories regarding the manner of death. These
include natural deaths, accidental deaths, homicidal deaths and suicidal
deaths. The information found during the autopsy not only reveals
the causes of death, how, when and where they occurred, but also shows
what manner it's of. |
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Select one of the following two topics to read
more:
--> Natural
and accidental deaths
--> Homicide
and suicide
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| Natural
And Accidental Deaths |
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| Natural deaths are the cause of the
majority of deaths that occur. The manners of death in this category
include heart failure, disease, and death during sleep etc. The autopsy
reveals certain aspects of the death, whether it occurred suddenly,
unexpectedly or if the person was critically ill and hadn't seen a
doctor in the last two weeks. Accidental deaths are common but if
the police suspect that the accident was deliberate or could have
been avoided, a criminal investigation will be conducted. An example
of an accident that could have been avoided is a safety guard left
off a dangerous piece of machinery, as would be the perfect deliberate
accident. |
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| Homicide
And Suicide |
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| Homicide, meaning the
killing of a human, is regarded as murder, where the criminal's intention
was to deliberately cause someone's death. Some common examples of
murdering include shooting, stabbing, smothering, strangling, hitting
with a blunt object and burning. Each weapon leaves distinct marks
on the corpse, which a pathologist may identify belongs to a certain
type of weapon and thus leading investigators to the actual murder
tool. Manslaughter, where death is not the intention, is however,
also regarded as homicide. Suicide, meaning intentionally taking one's
own life, is in fact illegal, as is assisting someone else to commit
suicide. A suicide agreement between two people is when it involves
both people claiming their lives together. If one person, however,
survives the attempt, he/she can be charged with manslaughter, or,
unintentional death. |
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