Title: (Optional) Describe causes of death and their associated injury patterns and characteristics.
Course: Forensic Technology (15055) > Section: Investigating Medicolegal Death

Description should include

- mechanical—vehicular injuries, blunt-force trauma, sharp-force trauma, gunshots, blast injuries
- electrical—electrocution, lightning strikes
- thermal—fires, burns, hypothermia, hyperthermia
- chemical—drug/poisoning, chemical exposure
- water—drowning.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are ways to determine the cause of death?
- How does “proximate cause of death” relate to the causes of death?
- How does cause of death differ from manner of death?