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Originally Posted by MrPots
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I got curious and Googled "Texas law unattended death" and these came up.
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.u.../htm/CR.49.htm
See ART. 49.04 # (6).
http://www.epcounty.com/medicalexaminer/faqs.htm
"Why is the office of the Medical Examiner (ME) involved?
The Office of the Medical Examiner is governed by a specific set of laws called the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, specifically Article 49.25 Medical Examiners are given also give all the rights and powers of a Justice of the Peace and those laws and duties apply as well. The following cases must be reported to our office:
- Deaths within 24 hours of admission to a hospital, nursing home or institution
- Unattended deaths (including at home)
- When a person is killed
- When a person is found and the circumstances of death are unknown
- When it is believed that the death of the individual came about by unlawful means
- When the death suspected to be a suicide "
IMO, not doing an autopsy is just going to "stir the puddin'."
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