Overview:
During autopsy, the medical examiner will determine the cause, mechanism, and
manner of death. The manner of death can be natural, homicide, suicide, accidental,
and undetermined.
Instructions:
In this assignment you can use a real-life case or create your own fictional scenario. Put
together a PowerPoint presentation with at least one slide each for a description of the
cause of death, mechanism of death, and manner of death.
• Define each term and discuss what the medical examiner would look for during
the autopsy in your particular case to determine what those results would be.
• What evidence would be found during autopsy that would lead to that
conclusion?
• What injuries to the body would be present?
Presentation Specifics:
• Maximum eight slides in length, excluding the Title and Reference slides.
• Each slide should have speaker notes that contain a script of what would be said
if you were presenting to the class in-class. It should be detailed and written as if
you are presenting.
Requirements:
• Submit a PowerPoint presentation in APA format.
• Maximum ten slides in length, excluding the Title and Reference slides.
• At least two resources.