Unnatural death

For the novel by Dorothy L Sayers, see Unnatural Death.

Unnatural death is a category used by coroners or medical examiners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. Therefore, it would include events such as:

accident
drug abuse
execution
homicide
misadventure
being attacked by insects, reptiles, fish, carnivorans, or other wildlife
adverse outcome of surgery (note that this is not failure of surgery)
suicide
terrorism
war
abortion^[1]

References

↑ Forensic Medicine for Lawyers. London: Tottel Publishing. 2008. pp. 278–287. ISBN 1-84592-241-7.

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Unnatural death

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