Anonymous
02/09/2016 09:43
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:In my experience it was natural causes like heart attacks.
What are you doing with DNA analysis? Why is this important?
People do this as a hobby. It sounds like OP is just curious.
Did you read 10:21?
Yes, but I assumed curiosity was driving it, since the data is so sparse. Sorry.
Anonymous
02/09/2016 09:41
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
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
02/09/2016 09:37
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:In my experience it was natural causes like heart attacks.
What are you doing with DNA analysis? Why is this important?
People do this as a hobby. It sounds like OP is just curious.
Did you read 10:21?
Anonymous
02/09/2016 09:36
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
Anonymous wrote:In my experience it was natural causes like heart attacks.
What are you doing with DNA analysis? Why is this important?
People do this as a hobby. It sounds like OP is just curious.
Anonymous
02/09/2016 06:42
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
In my experience it was natural causes like heart attacks.
What are you doing with DNA analysis? Why is this important?
What are you doing with DNA analysis? Why is this important?
Anonymous
02/08/2016 09:37
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
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
02/07/2016 10:58
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:More importantly, why is it important for you to know the cause of death? What changes?
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.
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
02/07/2016 10:58
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
Suicide, drug, accident [Sonny Bono died suddenly as he skied into a tree], infection, heart attack, stroke, other major medical event.
Anonymous
02/07/2016 10:53
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
Could be a heart attack or stroke.
Anonymous
02/07/2016 10:21
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
Anonymous wrote:More importantly, why is it important for you to know the cause of death? What changes?
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
02/07/2016 10:08
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
I have a relative who died suddenly of sepsis. It was described as sudden in the obit.
Anonymous
02/06/2016 10:01
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
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
02/06/2016 09:42
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
More importantly, why is it important for you to know the cause of death? What changes?
Anonymous
02/06/2016 06:01
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
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.
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
02/05/2016 21:06
Subject: Is "died suddenly" a euphemism for suicide?
Anonymous wrote:Sometimes. I know of several "died suddenly" obits
The causes were suicide, overdose, car accident, heart attack, stroke, and unkown cause
+1 - have seen it used for all sorts of things with folks I knew, including sudden infections and the like.