Death Investigation Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. occurs when a person purposefully kills oneself
  2. 6. one of five ways in which a person’s death is classified
  3. 7. death of one person caused by another person
  4. 8. the time between death and body discovery
  5. 9. medical doctor who oversees the death investigation and performs autopsies to establish the cause, manner, and mechanism of death
  6. 12. the cooling of the body following death.
  7. 13. medical exam performed by a medical examiner or pathologist to determine the cause, manner and mechanisms of death
  8. 14. first stage of death
  9. 15. the injury, condition, or disease responsible for a person’s death
  10. 18. death caused by the interruption and failure of body functions resulting from age, disease or toxic exposure
Down
  1. 1. death caused by unplanned events
  2. 2. describes the specific physiological, physical or chemical event in the body that brought about the cessation of life.
  3. 4. the breakdown of once living matter
  4. 5. refers to an underlying cause of death, as opposed to the final cause.
  5. 10. the pooling of blood in tissues after death due to gravity that results in a red skin color
  6. 11. the stiffening of the skeletal muscles after death
  7. 16. breakdown of cells as they self-digest
  8. 17. the cessation, or end, of life