
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. Hence it would include events such as:
- accident
- Drug Overdose
- attacked by an animal
- killed by a mob
- execution
- homicide
- medical error
- misadventure
- State-sponsored mass murder
- suicide
- war
resources
- Pathology: NATURAL VS. UNNATURAL DEATH
- "What does it mean to die of natural causes?" by Mona Chabli, Aug 2015
- Forensic Medicine for Lawyers. London: Tottel Publishing. 2008. pp. 278–287. ISBN 1-84592-241-7.
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