natural causes
Body's own failure
Natural causes is the explanation given when someone dies from disease, old age, or internal bodily failure rather than from violence, accident, or suicide.
The phrase appears most often in news reports and legal contexts: The coroner ruled she died of natural causes.
It emphasizes that no external agent or foul play was involved.
- old ageAdvanced years of life
- agingGrowing older over time
- organ failureVital tissue stops functioning
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
genetic mutation · asteroid impact · injury · extinction · passing · final breath · death throe · metabolism · peaceful · clinical death · medical examiner · coroner's report · decay · life expectancy · autopsy · earthquake · heart attack · certificate
- death causesmanner of death, accidental death, homicide, murder, suffocation
- autopsy findingsmanner of death, time of death, toxicology, histopathology, tissue samples
- deathsviolent death, sudden death, accidental death, tragic death, hanging
- wildlife mortalitymortality rate, die-off, mass die-off, carcass, carrion
- death recordsdeath certificate, death record, death certificates, vital records, death notice
- Died in OfficeFranklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, Warren G. Harding
natural causeshomicide
Causing another's death
murder · accident · accidental death · suicide · violent death
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