Unnatural death

For the novel by Dorothy L Sayers, see Unnatural Death.

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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In medicine

Liquefactive necrosis

Temporal lobe necrosis

Programmed cell death

Immunogenic cell death

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After death

Body	Stages Pallor mortis Algor mortis Rigor mortis Livor mortis Putrefaction Decomposition Skeletonization Fossilization Preservation Chemical brain preservation Cryopreservation Cryonics Neuropreservation Embalming Maceration Mummification Plastination Prosection Taxidermy Disposal Burial Bed burial Burial at sea Chariot burial Jar burial Natural burial Premature burial Secondary burial Ship burial Sky burial Space burial Cannibalism Cremation Dismemberment Excarnation Promession Resomation Beating heart cadaver Body donation Cadaveric spasm Coffin birth Death erection Dissection Gibbeting Postmortem Caloricity Post-mortem interval

Other aspects	Afterlife Cemetery Consciousness Customs Death mask Eternal oblivion Examination Funeral Grief Intermediate state Mourning Obituary Resurrection Taboo on the dead Vigil

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Unnatural death

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