In addition to deaths due to trauma (homicide, culpable homicide, negligent homicide, bodily harm resulting in death, suicide, and accidents), forensic practice deals with unexpected and unexplained fatalities. In general, long before any forensic examination takes place, emergency physicians and practice physicians have been summoned, have certified the death, moved the body, and on the basis of
... [Show full abstract] their own appraisal ensured that the police are informed. In differential diagnostic terms, all cases of sudden unexpected death prompt the question of whether the death was violent.