Determining the Time of Death
*Chapter three of Saferstein discusses various forensic pathology issues.
> One important issue when examining the dead is the time the death occurred.
> Many pathologists prefer not to make a guess about the time of death. What
> is the best method to determine the time of death? Why is the time of death
> deemed largely inaccurate?*
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Forensic pathologists rely on various methods to estimate the time at which a person died. For instance, time of death can be determined using the concurrence technique, in which the pathologist compares the time of the death with crucial incidents such as the degree of digestion that occurred since the victim’s last meal. However, the rate technique is deemed as a more reliable method. In this technique, pathologists measure changes in body functions such as temperature, putrefaction or rigor mortis distribution (Claridge, 2014) …
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