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Encyclopedia > Death by natural causes

In medicine, death by natural causes is a loosely-defined term used by coroners describing death when the cause of death was a naturally occurring disease process, or is not apparent given medical history or circumstances. Thus, deaths caused by active human intervention (as opposed to the failure of medical intervention to prevent death) are excluded from this definition, and are described as unnatural deaths. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... In medicine, natural causes is a loosely-defined term used by coroners describing death when the cause of death is not apparent given medical history or circumstances. ... For the chemical substances known as medicines, see medication. ... For the thrash metal band, see Coroner (band). ... For other uses, see Death (disambiguation), Dead (disambiguation), Death (band) or Deceased (band). ... Unnatural death is a category used by coroners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. ...


The majority of deaths in most countries are due to natural causes, and the majority of those deaths occur in old age. Paul Kruger in his old age. ...


In the United States for example, the most common natural cause of death is heart disease, accounting for 30% of all deaths there. Other common natural causes are stroke, Alzheimer's disease, congenital anomalies, genetic disorders (such as cystic fibrosis), serious infections, and respiratory disorders (figures as of the year 2000). Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases which affect the heart and as of 2007 it is the leading cause of death in the United States,[1] and England and Wales. ... For other uses, see Stroke (disambiguation). ... An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...


External links

  • Death by Natural Causes
  • What is death by natural causes?
  • Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry, Annex A: [http:/ /www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk/final_report/annex_a/chapter_18_12.htm 'Unnatural death' and 'death by natural causes']
  • Actual Causes of Death in the US, 2000

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Death - LoveToKnow 1911 (2499 words)
To the savage, death from natural causes is inexplicable.
Where written notice of the death, accompanied by a medical certificate of the cause of death, is sent to the registrar, information must nevertheless be given and the register signed within fourteen days after the death by the person giving the notice or some other person as required by the act.
Registers of death are, in law, evidence of the fact of death, and the entry, or a certified copy of it, will be sufficient evidence without a certificate of burial, although it is desirable that it should also be produced.
Natural Causes - Uncyclopedia (440 words)
Natural Causes, born Naturalanorikaliman S. Causes, and more often known as "Naitch the Terrible", is generally considered to be the world's most prominent murderer.
His mother Selphie Nphlictid Causes had very suicidal tendencies which emotionally scarred young Natural, and her abusiveness, which is generally cited as the main reason that rolling pins are banned in North America, put violence in his head.
Natural Causes spent the early part of his adult years as a grifter pretending to be a hippie.
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