FSC100H5 Lecture 4: Week 4 - Tuesday Jan 29
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Does not require mention in certificate of death. In ontario there are 5: accident, suicide, homicide, natural, undetermined. Forensic pathologist really don"t want an undetermined manner of death. Most common would be someone is dead and there is no apparent anatomic cause but they want to make sure it wasn"t due to some kind of toxin. Sometimes the family for certain reasons prefer not to have a full internal examination of their loved one and sometimes the coroner may take that into consideration. Timing of death/injury did they occur while the person was still alive, around the time that they did die, or after death. Maybe during transportation of the body they drop the victim of their head. You would expect to see that those injuries have nothing to do with the cause or manner of death. You have died from one of those 3. The body is an extension of the scene.
