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Scan alternative to a post mortem

Ailsa Cranna
5/ 6/2008

SALFORD’S coroner is promoting a revolutionary replacement for the post mortem to help reduce the grief felt by mourning families who do not want their loved one to undergo intrusive examination.

Instead of traditional surgical methods, coroner Jennifer Leeming is offering relatives the choice to electronically scan the deceased to determine the cause of death.


 

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   "The scans rarely fail to come up with a cause of death"

We can all do that. I can come up with a cause of death by reading tea leaves. Coming up with the correct cause of death is a little more tricky.
A pathologist
4/07/2008 at 11:01
   j James, yea very enterprising!!
lizard
27/06/2008 at 22:29
   Bit like Star Trek innit?
James Salmon
20/06/2008 at 19:05
   Correction to last post. Should have read "none intrusive"
lizard
9/06/2008 at 13:22
   "The MRI scans cost £500, with subsequent scans costing £350". I take it the "Jewish community" and others, choosing the scan, will be paying for it?. I am amazed at how far this technology has advanced, to the point of detecting poisons and toxins that may have caused death (?), if it does not then perhaps a rise in purchases of poisonous substances may result in these "intrusive examinations".
lizard
7/06/2008 at 13:49
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