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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Sometimes it’s a matter of logic. If you see the two organs have holes in them and one of them is the heart, you can assume that’s the one that caused your death first.
Death at the cellular level looks different under different circumstances. Cells that were frozen while still functional look different from cells that were starved of oxygen and then frozen.
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