Environmental Deaths Paper Name Class Date Professor Environmental Deaths Paper Environmental deaths are deaths that occur in a person's environment not at the hand of another person. The most common environmental deaths are drowning, lightening, hypothermia, and hyperthermia.?When a person dies it is responsibility of the corner or medical examiner to make a determination of cause of death. In some cases it is fairly easy to determine a person died of natural causes but in other cases this determination is not black and white. Once a determination of environmental death is made then the death investigation is over but if the medical examiner finds the death is suspicious the criminal investigation will begin. Drowning is an environmental death that can be ruled as a homicide in some cases but in most cases it is the result of an accident. Drowning is a natural cause of death is fifth in the United Sates. Every year in the United States there are over 3,000 deaths due to accidental drowning and a majority of the victims were male (Cox, 2013). A person drowns when their lungs fill with water causing them to asphyxiate. Drowning in Florida is a common occurrence and is the leading cause of death of children under the age of five (Cox, 2013). Florida has the highest drowning rate for children under the age of fourteen with the largest number of these deaths being African American children. Even though Florida is surrounded by water on both sides it does not ...
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