You know those TV Shows / Movies where they see a bullet wound and think it was a gun then the medical examiner tells them that he was poisoned before being shot? How does he determine that?
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Some body operations stop upon death. The simplest example is breathing. If someone is found in water, but there is no water in the lungs, they weren’t breathing underwater, meaning they didn’t drown. If someone was in a fire, but has no soot in the lungs, they were dead before the fire.
For your example, certain things that happen when a dead body is shot compared to when a live body is shot. For example, you lose more blood if you are shot while living, because your heart is still pumping, and you lose some blood before dying. If you were poisoned first, you lose less blood.
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