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Autopsy - Do I need an autopsy to prove our death?
Q: What is an autopsy, and why it would help my case?
A: An autopsy is a detailed examination of a dead person by a physician. The doctor who performs the test, is usually a pathologist who looks to find the exact cause of death. They do this by considering all the internal organs, including brain, heart, lung, liver, kidneys and spleen. Each area of the body is examined for evidence, caused or contributed to that person's death.
In a case concerningWrongful death claims (if a person or family has claimed that their love died because a stranger negligence), with an autopsy to prove crucial to your case. While an autopsy is crucial to support such a case, it can also light on the possibility that you loved as a result of the misconduct.
It is a double-edged sword. The autopsy was your claim by showing that your loved one died helping wrongdoing, or it could be shown that the treatment or actionthat prior to the death does not play a role that has been done at the death.
There are some religions that prohibit autopsies, and in these cases it is very difficult to prove, with a reasonable degree of probability that wrongdoing (eg, abuse) caused the death. In these cases we must rely on other evidence to support our claim.
I will be called upon by grieving families often ask whether an autopsy will be performed on their loved ones. As in life, there is no fixedThe answer to this crucial question. The high emotions after a family death; Questions improper treatment may cloud a family case, the uncertainty about the cause of death can also add a feeling of helplessness.
The most common case, where an autopsy is performed, in a traumatic accident. In murder or homicide cases autopsies always when the police want to know exactly what the cause of death of the person carried out. You can generally use this information to the trackPerpetrators.
Have in New York, if a person dies suspiciously, or has had within 24 hours after the operation, will be generally carried out an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.
For example, I had a case where a man on dialysis came home one day from his family and was later found bleeding to death in his bathroom. The walls were covered with blood and there were open bandages on the floor. An autopsy was able to confirm the man shunt (the place whereshare of the dialysis needle in his arm had been given to each session) infected and growing with each meeting. Nobody realized that he had just before the bleeding when he left the dialysis center. Unfortunately, when he came home, the shunt, and was torn, as it connected to an artery to provide blood shot from all over the bathroom, which looked like a crime scene. It was only through the autopsy that we could prove our case successfully.
Autopsies are usually performedby the County Medical Examiner. In the five boroughs of New York City, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island, autopsies are performed by the New York City Medical Examiner's Office. In Nassau, it's the Nassau County Medical Examiner, and in Suffolk, it's the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.