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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A basic autopsy is completed very soon after death. Processing of sample from the autopsy can take longer. Priority is given to situations where there’s a suspicion of a crime or hazard to others. That can take a while, but rarely more than a month or two. After that, there’s a process of review and making a report, then sharing the results with next of kin.
Answering the request for public release of the information is a matter that can take longer still. I presume the results were know to the family for months before there was public comment on the matter.
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