Table 2.

Clinical indications at the time of death

Patient ID	Disorders at time of death
Case 1	Upper GI bleed from ruptured esophageal varices; autoimmune hepatitis, ANA+ arthritis
Case 2	Tension pneumothorax most likely due to puncture of lung
Case 3	Multi-organ failure secondary to cardiogenic shock due to myocardial infarction in a failing heart with prior ischemic damage
Case 4	Hemorrhagic shock due to gastrointestinal bleeding from a large duodenal ulcer that destroyed a segment of the tastroduodenal artery; peptic ulcer disease
Case 5	Severe necrotizing tracheobronchitis and pneumonia due to community acquired-MRSA and beta hemolytic Streptococcus group B
Case 14	Severe mitral valvular disease with calcified bioprosthesis and calcific, infected emboli to multiple organs (consistent with strep pneumoniae); end-stage renal disease; bronchopneumonia
Case 15	Hepatitis C cirrhosis and end stage liver disease; staph aureus sepsis; prior IVDU
Case 16	Klebsiella sepsis with hepatic abscess, OLT for HCV cirrhosis, pulmonary hypertension, ECRP with sphincterotomy for biliary stones
Case 24	Scleroderma with CREST syndrome, GI hypomotility with large bowel obstruction, subtotal colectomy, erosive candidal esophagitis, and pneumoatosis intestinalis small intestine; pulmonary fibrosis, hypertension, and emphysema; arterionephrosclerosis; cachexia
Case 17	Ovarian cancer