Forensic Pathology

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a person can die. A forensic
pathologist's main role is to figure out how a victim died. First they
look at the proximate cause of death. That is the initial injury that led
to a sequence of events which caused the death of the victim. Second they
look at immediate cause of death. That is the injury or disease that
finally killed the individual. Next they look for the mechanism of death,
which is the altered physiology by which a disease or injury produces
death. And finally they look at the manner of death. There are four
manners of death. They include homicide, which someone else caused the
victims death, whether by intention or criminal negligence. Suicide, in
which the victim causes his or her own death. Accidental, in which an
individual or individuals fall victim to a hostile environment. Finally
natural causes, where the victim dies in absence of reasonably considered
hostile to human life (Uthman, 1998).

There are many normal postmortem changes that take ...

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