Today must be a good day to die...

[Shepherd]

Star Ranger4 wrote:

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One thing I dont get. Lulu and I were watching the coverage on CNN's Headline News over dinner, and they said they'd be performing an autopsy today.
Reason being, he'd died without an actual doctor in attendence.




But he died at bloody UCLA Westwood. A fricking TEACHING HOSPITAL. How could there not be a Doctor in attendance?

Maybe he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital? IIRC, EMTs cannot actually declare you dead. Only an actual doctor can pronounce death.
Thus, if you die before reaching a doctor, you are only declared dead after the doctor sees the body.

I believe that this is the reason for the urban legend about Disney scheming to make certain that nobody is declared dead within their amusement park. There is
no scheming involved, it is simply that the paramedics are legally unable to make the declaration of death.
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