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An unnatural cause of death results from an external cause, typically including homicides, suicides, accidents, medical errors, alcohol intoxications and drug overdoses. [5] [6] 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.
Death notification. A death notification or, in military contexts, a casualty notification is the delivery of the news of a death to another person. There are many roles that contribute to the death notification process. The notifier is the person who delivers the death notice. Notifiers can be military, medical personnel or law enforcement.
Vital statistics generally distinguish specific injuries and diseases as cause of death, from general categories like homicide, accident, and death by natural causes as manner of death. Both are listed in this category, as are both proximal and root causes of death. An injury that could be fatal is called major trauma; see also Category:Injuries.
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. The cause of death is a specific disease or injury ...
Funeral procession in India ( Islam) Tallit shrouds ( Judaism) A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various ...
A death certificate is either a legal document issued by a medical practitioner which states when a person died, or a document issued by a government civil registration office, that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths. An official death certificate is usually required to be ...
Killing of self. Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death. Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others. Autocide, suicide by automobile collision. Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician. Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders.
There are four main types of autopsy: [14] Medico-legal or forensic or coroner's autopsies seek to find the cause and manner of death and to identify the decedent. [14] They are generally performed, as prescribed by applicable law, in cases of violent, suspicious or sudden deaths, deaths without medical assistance, or during surgical procedures ...