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 would include events such as:

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

See also

• Death by natural causes