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Unnatural death

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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. 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 (this is not failure of surgery)
  • suicide
  • terrorism
  • war

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    Unnatural death Wikipedia
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