[blu]

Typically, any death without a physician present to call the time of death, or an unattended death, automatically becomes a coroners case and an autopsy must be conducted to determine the cause of death.

Just wanted to correct a few misspeaks on your post.

Not all unattended deaths require autopsy or even a declaration of Time Of Death (TOD) by a doctor. In a hospice setting, where is the patient is at home, the TOD is called by the on-call hospice org, then the body is taken to the funeral home, UNLESS the family requests an autopsy.

Note: this is the untypical...

[ichabod1]

duly noted. we didn’t have hospices back then but i’m sure nursing homes are the same way.