Question

Brenda is a medical examiner. She determines that a victim she has just examined died of lung cancer. Another victim she examines may have died from accidental overdose or from a heart attack, but she cannot yet determine which cause. Which categories will Brenda use to classify these deaths? Brenda will classify the death from lung cancer as death, She will classify the death of the second victim as ___________because she feels that there are competing factors that point to more than one cause of death.

Answer 1

Answer:

accidental, natural or undetermined

Explanation:

Brenda was said to have a victim who after various examinations couldn’t ascertain the exact cause of death. This was because she thought the victim may have died from accidental overdose or from a heart attack but couldn’t ascertain the exact cause.

In such a scenario, there will be no definite cause because she feels that there are competing factors that point to more than one cause of death.