I know someone who has a friend who died this summer. Police investigated the cause of death, nothing suspicious. Toxicology results were negative and they didn't find anything. She was in her mid 50s and very healthy as far as I know. How can a person just die suddenly and not give an answer? If a person dies, that means something happened or something's wrong, right? Could something have been missed even though this was investigated for months? Why would the cause of death be undetermined if the person appearently died for a reason?
2007-12-23 16:34:13 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
a couple of you mentioned a heart attack. Wouldn't that have showed up? I forgot that I heard it might've been a brain anuerysm. Wouldn't that have showed up too?
2007-12-23 18:21:04 · update #1
Sometimes things go wrong in the brain, something misfires and the system shuts down. Sometimes they figure it out and sometimes they don't. Medical pathology is not a perfect science and this is not a perfect world. Sometimes we don't get to know the answer this side of heaven, but if you have something to lean on, faith in God, then the blow is softened somewhat. The death of a loved one is never easy, but acceptance is the next step in the grieving process that needs to take place. Once you've accepted the facts, not necessarily the reasons, you can move on and celebrate the good memories that make up your friends life.
I know you said this was a friend of a friend, but I think it still applies.
2007-12-23 16:47:47 · answer #1 · answered by mattiestreasure 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most autopsies the tests are designed to find things that would indicate injuries or drugs that would cause an unnatural death. If the results of those tests are positive then more complicated tests would be done, but if the tests were negative and its believed to be a natural death, say a heart attack, they may not spend the money to try to prove it.
2007-12-23 17:25:56 · answer #2 · answered by Bumblebee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can only come back negative for certain things, like poison, gun shot wounds, heart attach........the list is endless.
However, EVERYONE dies of SOMETHING.
This would be on EVERY autopsy, even if it is natural causes.
You only mention that toxicology came back negative, what about everything else?
Geez, I would hate to be the first person in the world who died of NOTHING.
2007-12-23 16:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by Ripose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an infinite amount of reasons for her death, the most probable is an idiopathic cardiac arrest. Count your luck that the autopsy results did not find anything suspicious, because then you had a potential murderer on your hands.
2007-12-23 18:40:27 · answer #4 · answered by coen_evs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 07:23:59 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People can die in perfect health. It happens all the time
2007-12-23 22:55:43 · answer #6 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some people just lose the will to live.
2007-12-23 16:39:41 · answer #7 · answered by Reverie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If tissues and organs are decomposed , cause can not be detected though there is a cause.
2007-12-23 16:48:54 · answer #8 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋