So Fuddy had an heart abnormality and the coroner made an educated “guess” based on that? Or the coroner says lets call it a heart attack because that’s the easy way out because of the controversy?”
That’s the way I see it. Whether or not they found, or even looked, for anything else we’ll never know. They just said ‘having eliminated drowning and who knows what else, let’s call it ‘cardiac arrhythmia’’. Case closed.
If either of those two are the case with Fuddy, the corner should have stated in his report as ‘unknown cause of death’.
Here is what Cleveland Clinic says about sudden cardiac death, which they classify as a type of arrhythmia:
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/disorders/electric/scd.aspx
“Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a sudden, unexpected death caused by loss of heart function (sudden cardiac arrest). Sudden cardiac death is the largest cause of natural death in the United States, causing about 325,000 adult deaths in the United States each year. Sudden cardiac death is responsible for half of all heart disease deaths.”
“Sudden cardiac arrest is not a heart attack (myocardial infarction). Heart attacks occur when there is a blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries, preventing the heart from receiving enough oxygen-rich blood. If the oxygen in the blood cannot reach the heart muscle, the heart becomes damaged.
“In contrast, sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the electrical system to the heart malfunctions and suddenly becomes very irregular. The heart beats dangerously fast.”
“What are the risk factors of sudden cardiac arrest?”
“OBESITY”
Long list of many conditions Fuddy may or may not have had or been known to her brother, however obesity is an obvious risk factor for arrhythmia that she had