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Unnatural death is a category used by coroners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. Hence it would include events such as:

accident
execution
homicide
misadventure
- being attacked by insects, reptiles, fish, carnivorans, or other wildlife
- adverse outcome of surgery (note that this is not failure of surgery)
suicide
terrorism
war

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Death by natural causes

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