Figure 2.

Types of death according to Leis (9). Examples are shown for: (a) linear type of death (75-year-old man with cardiovascular disease and cardiac cause of death), (b) diverging type of death (45-year-old woman with metastatic cancer and non-organ-specific cause of death), (c) converging type of death (79-year-old man with cardiovascular, gastric, and lung disease and cardiac cause of death), and (d) complex type of death (63-year-old man with cardiovascular and pulmonary disease and with cerebral and pulmonary causes of death)