MANNER OF DEATH By: Jill McKinney

5 Different Manners of Death

Homicide Suicide Accidental Natural causes Undetermined Court determines classifications

Homicide

9% of deaths are homicides. It is the act of a human killing another

human Examples: someone shoots someone

shoots someone else,someone stabs someone pushessomeone else offa building

Suicide

Also 9% of deaths Has to be intentional and self inflicted Examples: someone shoots themselves,

hangs themselves, or out of their own will jumps from a building.

Accidental

Makes the majority of deaths at 40% Has to be unavoidable and unintentional Examples: unexpected car crash, falling

off a high place, cleaning a gun that was thought to be unloaded and accidentally shot themselves

Natural Causes

38% of deaths are natural Has to be caused by an organ failure or

disease Examples: Heart attack, Cancer, or

kidney failure

Undetermined

4% of deaths Can’t be determined because of lack of

evidence or tampering of evidence Examples: police accidentally disturb the scene, weather has eroded evidence, little to no evidence was left behind