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    The bullet was identified as a Remington-Peters, soft-point, metal-jacketed bullet. An autopsy was performed immediately after Dr. King was pronounced dead by Dr. Jerry T. Francisco in the Shelby County at Gaston Hospital. James Earl Ray was named as the suspect one month later. The police later caught an escaped thief named James Earl Ray…

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    Dr Bennet Omalu Biography

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    pathologist credited with the discovery of the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, (CTE). Omalu first came into contact with CTE when he was working at the Pittsburgh coroner's office, when he was tasked with performing the autopsy on famous Steelers center Mike Webster. He eventually came to believe that the depression and dementia Webster had suffered prior to his death was linked to the hits he took playing football(Concussion 2). After Omalu had the slides made,…

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    They first have to study the person’s medical history, then perform autopsies, examine the organs, collect evidence, write reports and be witnesses in court. To perform an autopsy, the forensic pathologists have to examine the external part of the dead body, then they will saw off the ribs to look at the organs inside, they can remove the organs to weigh them and determine…

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    Immediate Coping Mechanisms After going over the expected stages of grief it is important to identify the coping mechanisms that parents can use to cope as well as coping mechanisms that the parents are using and may not even know. According Heazell, Siassakos, Blencowe, Burden, Bhutta, Cacciatore, Downe (2016), “there are 5 support elements: tangible, emotional, esteem, informational, and network and belonging” when dealing with perinatal loss (p.611). First and foremost, it is important for…

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    In natural death, suicide, accidental death, and homicide the finished result's exactly identical that it ends up in the loss of a person's life. Natural death happens as a result of one factor that is triggered by the person, like heart disease, maturity or cancer. this is often one thing that acts to end the period of the person. An accidental death is one factor that is triggered by the behavior of the person, falling down the steps, an automotive accident, this happens thanks to An accident…

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    of physiological autopsy which basically means that a kid kills himself and then they uncover why the kid did what he did. Quindlen is an amazing author and uses many different rhetorical strategies to make us feel her emotion on the subject. Quindlen uses pathos, refutation, and metaphors in order to get everyone to be aware of the dangers of mental illness. Quindlen uses pathos to appeal to the emotions of her audience. Quindlen states in the article that “psychological autopsy is what the…

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    Firstly, the defence counsel and jury were not provided crucial information that may have altered the outcome of the trial. Had they had access to the two unofficial autopsy documents, the defence could have argued about whether Truscott committed the crime, due to the assumed time of death of the victim. Additionally, the Crown failed to recognize Dr. Penistan’s description of his findings as an “agonizing reappraisal”…

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    First off, Lee Harvey Oswald located at his work which at the time was positioned behind the car procession. The autopsy report shows that the shot that hit Kennedy came from the side of JFK's head. Reports also said that Kennedy was shot in the throat, front to back, but he was really shot in his spinal cord causing his hands to go up looking like he was choking. With…

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    Kennedy’s wounds” (Waggoner). The doctors in Dallas wanted to do an autopsy on JFK, but the Secret Service wanted government doctors to do the autopsy. JFK’s body was then flown to Maryland under Secret Service supervision. When they got to Maryland, Kennedy’s wounds appeared different than in Dallas (Waggoner). To prove, Jeffrey Waggoner, author of The Assassination of President Kennedy, claims, “According to the official autopsy report, the exit wound in Kennedy’s skull had grown. In Dallas,…

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    Terri Shiavo

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    removed to allow her to die naturally, yet her family contested his fight, claiming that Terri responded and interacted with them. Although her autopsy results confirmed what her husband argued. Terri suffered from blindness, and the inability to communicate, or interact. Yet her family continued to contest that she interacted with them, (Schiavo Autopsy). Terri’s case involved the application of passive, involuntary euthanasia by allowing her natural death after the cessation of her tube…

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