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. It includes events such as:

• accidents
• drug overdoses
• executions
• murders
• deaths by misadventure
• animal attacks
• complications of surgery
• suicides
• terrorism acts
• war acts

See also

• Death by natural causes