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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In the case of a friend where it took 9 months it was due to tests for drugs. She was found to have a massive fentanyl OD with a side car of cocaine. She was found in her running car in an apartment parking lot, not her own. I assume she thought she was getting coke oe maybe meth.
Drug ODs get low priority and have to wait for serious crimes, mysteries etc. ODs tend to be unclaimed anyway so there’s usually no hurry.
Oh, at the memorial the family said it was an aneurysm which I thought seemed unlikely though it could happen to even buff athletes. So I got her death cert after checking several times ( I do research at the recorders office weekly so it was no effort to look her up too)
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