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Originally Posted by Damien
I still don't understand how 'old age' can be a primary cause? Surely you die because something gives up which may be the consequence of old age. Your heart gives up, you have pneumonia or something?
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If death is sudden or unexplained then an inquest has to be held. If however a terminal decline in health is evident and this is attested to by a doctor, within a couple of weeks of death, then there isn’t an inquest, there isn’t a post-mortem and there may well not be a diagnosed cause of death. ‘Old age’ can and is an acceptable explanation for multiple organ failure caused by a body no longer being able to replenish itself.