• cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    What is the actual cause if death tho, like does their heart just quit or some other essential process or organ just quits?

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      No one knows. It’s a diagnosis of exclusion. It’s a lot more common in infants (although still relatively uncommon), and significantly less common in kids. There are some types of conditions that you can’t really tell at autopsy though. So if the heart suddenly starts beating out of whack or if someone had a seizure, there is not necessarily going to be evidence of that for you to know what happened, unfortunately.