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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Suicide or OD 90% of the time. If it was a natural 'suddenly' (ie stroke or heart attack) it's usually spelled out to avoid the implications of the aforementioned causes.[/quote]

Only if the person died more than 20 years ago.  Now, it no longer means that.  Died unexpectedly now can often mean some health issue developed rapidly and the details are strange or hard to list.  For example, I knew one person who went swimming in unsafe waters, had a scratch become infected and died from some massive infection that spread quickly through his system and the doctors could not treat fast enough to stop the infection. He was listed as having died this way.  I've seen people who have had rapid cases of late stage cancer that had that listing because the family wanted their privacy.  And in the Covid era, I know a number of people who did not want to reveal that family members died of Covid.

So, no, it is now significantly less often that that phrase means what it traditionally meant because more and more people are trying to preserve their privacy in this day and age of the 2 second news cycle and mass information distribution.[/quote]

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