Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
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Anonymous
+1 - have seen it used for all sorts of things with folks I knew, including sudden infections and the like. |
Anonymous
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Epilepsy
Overdose Diabetes Aneurysm So many reasons for sudden death And 100 years ago, people died "suddenly" from meningitis, cancer, measles, etc. Suddenly meant 48 hours. |
Anonymous
| More importantly, why is it important for you to know the cause of death? What changes? |
Anonymous
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With obits, it's journalism, not a medical report. There are timelines they have to meet, so they publish the obit with what they have. These are older documents too, right? So, imagine the limitations and turn around for autopsies or medical investigations. You have to take these things into account when doing this type of research. It sounds like an amazing project. Scrapbook it!!! |
Anonymous
| I have a relative who died suddenly of sepsis. It was described as sudden in the obit. |
Anonymous
It's a data point. I am the latest in a cluster of young women (under 40 at the time) in my family to be struck with multiple autoimmune diseases all at the same time. In a few cases, death has occurred within a year or two. I didn't even know people could die from lupus until this started. Some much older relatives have mentioned a similar cluster of ill or dying young women in the '40s. Some of us are their grand-daughters. However, back then, people didn't talk about illness the same way. Cancer, for example, was seldom publicly acknowledged. We've been looking at both DNA and family death records to try to get some answers. I'd like to give my daughters or granddaughters some sense of what is going on. |
Anonymous
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Could be a heart attack or stroke. |
Anonymous
| Suicide, drug, accident [Sonny Bono died suddenly as he skied into a tree], infection, heart attack, stroke, other major medical event. |
Anonymous
You don't have any data from Obits, so I wouldn't extrapolate. If your family has multiple members with autoimmune disorders that should be enough to info your daughters that they have a high risk of also developing those diseases. |
Anonymous
| I just watched a 6 Feet Under episode about this very thing. Are you watching, OP? I was surprised that the funeral director seemed to sudden assume sudden death meant suicide. I always thought it just meant unexpected. |
Anonymous
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In my experience it was natural causes like heart attacks.
What are you doing with DNA analysis? Why is this important? |
Anonymous
People do this as a hobby. It sounds like OP is just curious. |
Anonymous
Did you read 10:21? |
Anonymous
| You're looking at old records? Heart attacks and strokes were very, very common. just think how many people (esp men) are on statins and high blood pressure drugs now. |
Anonymous
Yes, but I assumed curiosity was driving it, since the data is so sparse. Sorry. |