Arrange for Organ and Tissue Procurement

permanent cessation of cardiac and/or respiratory function

licensed physician or a medical examiner/ coroner

1. legal documentaion that person has died

2. provided information for mortality statistics used to assess the nation's health

3. develops priorites for funding and programs involving public health

Any injury or disease that produces a physiological derangement in the body that results in the death of the individual

the physiological derangement produced by the cause of death

Death due solely or nearly totally to disease and/or the aging process

death resulting form interaction with a hostile environment (external or internal)

Injury or poisoning as a result of an intentional, self-inflicted act committed to do self harm or cause the death of one's self

Death at the hands of another

May follow action or inaction

Used when the information pointing to one manner of death is no more compelling than one or more other competing manners of death