16 Oct
2024
16 Oct
'24
3:28 a.m.
As for my Mom, she had a heart attack, heart stopped , paramedics got it restarted but
she passed before she could even be loaded into the ambulance. It took about 7 minutes
from call to ambulance arriving. The death certificate said she died of a heart attack,
which she was on medication for. I don’t think a full autopsy was performed, just a
toxicology. They can tell some things from just tox and blood tests.
Another oddity, is that when you sell your house, at least here in California, there is a
check box on the realtor form asking if someone died in the house.
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On Oct 15, 2024, at 20:13, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> When my mom died, at home , at age 99, the ambulance people said that
> an autopsy has to be performed when someone dies at home. The police
> also came and said the same thing.
> When my mother-in-law passed, in the hospital, no autopsy needed to be
> done.
> I did not ask specifics in either case.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2024, Ali via cctalk wrote:
Was an autopsy actually done? Did they contact you with a report/result? I can almost
guarantee that a 99 y.o. passing in her home will not warrant an autopsy short of some
other horrible thing happening at the same time e.g. arsonist set the house on fire and
now the DA wants to link the death to the arson to add a murder charge.
Are there differences in different areas?
Is "autopsy has to be performed" a city, county, state, or federal mandate?
Ward Christensen died in Rolling Meadows, IL
What are the rules THERE?