Probers to convince kin for autopsy on Medel

[Win2Win]

Investigators probing the death of Philip Medel, one of the accused in the Nida Blanca murder case, will try to convince his family to subject his body to an autopsy, the Eastern Police District said Monday.

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[Arthur Little]

No "medals" for guessing here; :NoNo: however, reading between the lines, I imagine the investigators felt the need to "meddle" in this accused's affairs ... because they suspected something about the case st[R]unk! :cwm24:

[Doc Alan]

Investigators probing the death of Philip Medel, one of the accused in the Nida Blanca murder case, will try to convince his family to subject his body to an autopsy...
An interesting contrast with the UK, where if a death was reported to the Coroner (or Procurator Fiscal in Scotland), and an autopsy was deemed necessary, the relatives would have virtually NO choice in the matter. Normally the only situation here in which the relatives could choose not to give consent would be where the doctors had issued a death certificate, with a natural cause of death, and requested an autopsy for interest (a small proportion of all autopsies). About a quarter of deaths in the UK have a Coroner (or Procurator Fiscal) autopsy. Most of those are natural causes (but were sudden, unexplained, and therefore incapable of having a death certificate without an autopsy). Dr. Harold Shipman got away with it for so long because he wrote cases up as "natural causes".