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. Old Age is not a cause of death. Death in hospital from a diagnosed condition would not necessarily require autopsy. Catholics are known to be opposed to the autopsy, and after autopsy we would return the organs of the deceased to the family (in a hefty garbage sack sewn back inside the body) as it was deemed important to them to have as much of the remains as possible to inter.
My experience was from a different county in a different state in a different era (middle-late 70s) but I was shocked at the apparent lack of procedure in West Texas after the dearly departed Justice Scalia case.
Question. Why are seven members of the Supreme Court about to be Catholic and the other two Jewish?
Question. Why are seven members of the Supreme Court about to be Catholic and the other two Jewish?
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Because MORMONS can’t be trusted...FACT!!!
Re Question. Why are seven members of the Supreme Court about to be Catholic and the other two Jewish?:
Because the Jews will always be God’s Chosen and favored people.
And because Catholics are the One, Holy, Universal, and Apostolic people He accepted.
IIRC Justices Gorsuch and Thomas are both Episcopalians.
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...