Many medical examiners and coroners have stopped doing autopsies on people over the age of 60 unless it’s an obvious violent death. In Oklahoma, the age is 40. An investigation found that there is a trend to assume that the elderly always die of natural causes. There may, in fact, be a quiet epidemic of what are called “gray homicides” going undetected and unpunished.
National Public Radio
“Autopsy Cutbacks Reveal ‘Gray Homicides'”
February 5, 2011
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