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postmortem

adjective as in following death

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noun as in analysis after death

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I didn’t find hope or inspiration within these pages — the book felt more like an obligatory postmortem with an already established conclusion.

The postmortem report cited cardiorespiratory shock from electrical current at multiple sites as the cause of death, occurring 36 to 72 hours before the autopsy conducted on 1 May.

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The coroner's office in Surrey told the BBC that after a postmortem, it had determined that Kapur died of natural causes.

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Any postmortem needs to examine not just the message, but also the medium.

A postmortem of Mr Rickards' body showed he had been strangled weeks before his death and was also recovering from recent rib fractures, according to the CPS.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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