DEATH INVESTIGATION
According to Louisiana Revised Statute 13:5713, the coroner shall either view the body or make an investigation into the cause and manner of death in all cases involving the following:
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Suspicious, unexpected, or unusual deaths
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Sudden or violent deaths
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Deaths due to unknown or obscure causes or in any unusual manner
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Bodies found dead
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Deaths due to suspected suicide or homicide
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Deaths in which poison is suspected
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Any death from natural causes occurring in a hospital under twenty-four hours of admission
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Deaths following an injury or accident either old or recent
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Deaths due to drowning, hanging, burns, electrocution, gunshot wounds, stabs or cutting, lightning, starvation, radiation, exposure, alcoholism, addiction, tetanus, strangulation, suffocation, or smothering
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Deaths due to trauma from whatever cause
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Deaths due to criminal means or by casualty
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Deaths in prison or while serving a sentence
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Deaths due to virulent contagious disease that might be caused by or cause a public hazard, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome