I was reading an article about a child body found frozen with multiple traumas and I was wondering if somone was left bleeding in freezing weather, how does the autopsy determine between the bleeding and the freezing as the exact cause of death? (It doesn’t have to be only these two competing causes. I am asking about any multiple traumas that could equally cause death.)
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You also have to understand that certain wounds or diseases, that may cause death, have different symptoms and affect different body systems. For example people can can die from heart failure. Well we can divide that up into two different types. Right sided and left sided. If the right side of someone’s heart failed, and that is what led to theirs death, you’d most likely see severe peripheral edema, or swellings in the limbs especially the legs. Whereas if it was left sided, you would find fluid in the lungs with lots of pink frothy saliva.
Besides obvious trauma, such as “yo homeboy got blasted in the head thee times” are dead anyway. other injuries will cause different reactions in the body and usually that’s is enough for them to determine how a person died.
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