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*Unnatural causes trump natural ones. If a guy with (nothing more than) a 70% proximal LAD stenosis and an old myocardial infarct is found in the water, they are usually called drowning. | *Unnatural causes trump natural ones. If a guy with (nothing more than) a 70% proximal LAD stenosis and an old [[myocardial infarct]] is found in the water, they are usually called drowning. | ||
*Cancer is rarely the immediate cause of death - it is usually something else.<ref>PS. 2009.</ref> | *Cancer is rarely the immediate cause of death - it is usually something else.<ref>PS. 2009.</ref> | ||
*Things (mechanisms) that shouldn't be used: [http://www.pallimed.org/2008/03/unacceptable-causes-of-death-other-web.html http://www.pallimed.org/2008/03/unacceptable-causes-of-death-other-web.html] | *Things (mechanisms) that shouldn't be used: [http://www.pallimed.org/2008/03/unacceptable-causes-of-death-other-web.html http://www.pallimed.org/2008/03/unacceptable-causes-of-death-other-web.html] | ||