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

Question

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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Answer 1

the autopsy might have been completed for a while; but the request for the information to be released might have taken longer

depending on where you are autopsy can take a while (if not part of criminal investigations)……for example in ireland it might take 4-6months for family to get the post mortem report: [https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/post-mortems/](https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/post-mortems/)