Unnatural death

For the novel by Dorothy L Sayers, see Unnatural Death.

Unnatural death is a category used by coroners or medical examiners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. Therefore, it would include events such as:

• accident
• execution
• homicide
• misadventure
  • being attacked by insects, reptiles, fish, carnivorans, or other wildlife
  • adverse outcome of surgery (note that this is not failure of surgery)
• suicide
• terrorism
• war
• abortion

See also

• Death by natural causes