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myccrider

(484 posts)
15. On the 'dieing [sic] of other conditions' bs...
Fri Jan 29, 2021, 10:00 PM
Jan 2021

I do genealogical research and have seen many copies of death certificates. Although the forms vary, there are always areas to put multiple causes of death such as ‘primary and contributing’ or ‘primary/proximal, also due to, also due to...’ or’ contributing conditions’, etc.

Two examples:
A man’s primary cause was bleeding out, next cause was punctured artery, next cause was ‘he was in a head on car accident’! Now most normal people would say he died from the car accident but it’s listed as the third thing contributing to his death.

A woman’s primary cause of death was cardiac arrest, next cause was carcinomatosis (cancer spread throughout body), next cause was cancer of the stomach which was diagnosed 1 year earlier. Most people would say she died of the cancer but it’s NOT the first thing listed!

This idiocy about cause of death is just another example of outright lying or willful ignorance by the fact-free crowd.

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On the 'dieing [sic] of other conditions' bs... myccrider Jan 2021 #15
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