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Sudden Death and the Coroner
 CORONER'S POST MORTEM AND INQUESTS

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6. Do all cases referred to the coroner
    require a post mortem?

 

The coroner may find that medical history establishes a cause of death without a post mortem, but if the cause of death is in any way uncertain, violent or traumatic, a post mortem will usually be necessary.

 

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