 Mystery: March 28, 2007 Issue [#1618] |
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When I was younger my mother used to threaten me with my life when I stepped out of line...It is a Mystery to me, that at 39, I'm still living and hearing her voice echo in my mind.
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Last week I attended a lecture sponsored by a local writer's group with the lot of you in mind. The keynote speaker was the Coroner of my area and his topic was on Forensics. It was an unique opportunity for the Mystery writer and in the next couple of months I would like to address some of the information that was passed on to me.
The first topic I want to discuss is how is it determined if an autopsy is needed. I've included, with permission, the list that our speaker Lyell P. Cook D-ABMDI comprised. Please note that this list is comprised from the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and they may not be the same qualifications in your local area.
I've included all of the reasons just in case you might want to include a twist in your mystery story, since not all mysteries involve a murder.
The following is a list of cases reportable to the coroner
* Sudden deaths not caused by readily recognizable disease, or wherein a physician on the basis of prior (recent) medical attention cannot properly certify the cause of death.
* Deaths occurring under suspicious circumstances, including those where alcohol, drugs or other toxic substances may have had a direst bearing on the outcome
Deaths occurring as a result of violence or trauma, whether apparently homicidal, suicidal or accidental (including those due to mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical or radiation injury, drowning, cave-ins and substances), regardless of time elapsing between the injury and the time of death.
Our Coroner gave us an interesting example to the importance of the underlined statement…
A rather violent fight between a couple ended with a man hanging on to the hood of his girlfriend's car as she tried several times to dislodge him by hitting other vehicles. The man went into a coma for several years until he died in the hospital.
* Any death in which trauma, chemical injury, drug overdose or reaction to drugs, medication or medical treatment was a primary or secondary, direct or indirect, contributory, aggravating or precipitating cause of death.
*Operative and peri-operative deaths in which the death is not readily explainable on the basis of prior disease.
*Any death, which occurs less than 24 hours after the admittance to any hospital, nursing home or institution or at home, including those under hospice care.
*Deaths known or suspected to be due to contagious disease and constituting a public hazard.
* Deaths occurring in prison or penal institution or while in custody of the police.
* Deaths of persons whose bodies are to be cremated, buried at sea or otherwise disposed of so as to be thereafter unavailable for examination.
*Stillbirths and all infant deaths especially those suspected of SIDS.
* Any death where there is uncertainty as to whether or not it should be reported to the Coroner's Office.
In next month's Mystery Newsletter I'll continue on with this discussion of Forensics.
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