Why does it take a coroner up/over a year to determine a person’s cause of death?

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The Irish coroner just announced Sinead O’Connor died of natural causes (COPD and asthma – smokers take note). Why did it take them so long to figure that out? Do autopsy results always take over a year? What’s the hold up?

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At UMass… it is probably because those tissue samples sit on the loading dock for an average of 6 weeks before anyone bothers to come retrieve them. If it takes more than a month to take an elevator down 2 floors, how long does it take to actually enter the pathology lab?

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