How are coroners able to find specific details about a dead body, like the time of death, cause of death, and even the distance between the victim and the attacker?

Question

How are coroners able to find specific details about a dead body, like the time of death, cause of death, and even the distance between the victim and the attacker?

In: Biology

Answer 1

There are really three distinctions that need to be made here.

The *cause* of death is the injury/disease that produced the death. Example: a gunshot would to the head.

The *mechanism* of death would be what happened to the body to make it die. Example: it’s brain was displaced and/or the person bled out from a gunshot wound to the head.

The *manner* of death is how the death came to be. Example: self-inflicted gunshot to the head.

Different details apply to each of those three things which paints a clearer picture for professionals who interpret it.

Edit: there are other good explanations that have been posted already that apply details of how things happen physiologically, which may have answered your question, just didn’t think it was explained to you like you were 5.