Cause of Death Quotes

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

When you die at 72, no matter what you die of, it's natural causes. Even if you get hit by a truck, it's natural causes. 'Cause if you was younger, you'd have got out the way!

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

Aspirin will not bring dead hookers back to life.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what in the medical statistics is called external causes and that is violence in the society. For instance I've seen figures that say that if you take the male age cohort from16 to 45 years, 54% of the people who die in that age cohort die from external causes.

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

Mind the dead man, my dear.

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.