Chapter+11+AB

1. Manner of Death vs. Cause of Death Manner of death can be natural death, suicidal death, accidental death, and homicidal death, or undetermined. Cause of death is simply the reason that someone dies. Disease, physical injury, stroke, heart attack are all causes of death. All of the causes of death fall under a particular manner of death.

b. Cause of Death and Mechanism of death Mechanism of death is the specific change in the body that brought on the ending of life. So the cause of death could be a shooting and the mechanism of death would be loss of blood.

c. Larva and pupa Larva is an immature form of an animal that undergoes metamorphosis, like a frog. Pupa is the stage in an insects life when the larva forms a capsule around itself and changes into its adult form.

d. Rigor Mortis and Livor Mortis Rigor mortis is the stiffening of the skeletal muscles after death. Livor Mortis is the pooling of the blood in a particular spot on the body, making the skin a reddish.

e. Autolysis and Decomposition Autolysis is the spontaneous break down of cells as they self-digest. Decomposition has many stages and it is the decaying of the body. Initial decay, putrefication, Black putrefication, butyric fermentation, and dry decay are the stages of decompostion.

2. The abdominal region of the deer was so large because when an animal dies the gases inside of the body are all released making the deer appear much larger than usual.

3. This conclusion could have been determined if there were soil samples on the body, or some type of grass that would suggest that the body had come from somewhere in the country. Bugs and insects could have gotten on the body that would not normally be in the city.

4. I don't agree with this because the rigor doesn't start wearing off until 36 hours after the time of death.

5. Blowflies are the first to come to the body. Wasp larvae are generally the last insects to come and lay eggs on the body because they are attracted to the maggots already present on the body.