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This article and unnatural death should really be merged into one, neither is particularly strong on its own. Richard001 23:57, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Can someone please help me understand this. Why is it that some people are recorded to have died of natural causes, whereas others may be noted down as dying of heart disease? I never understood this distinction, they are the same in theory. 77.96.240.178 ( talk) 13:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
It might be helpful if this article provided some "unnatural" causes of death for comparison. For example, is an infectious disease a "natural cause" of death? What about an accident, like falling down the stairs? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:49, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Is the term "death by natural causes" associated with "dying at an old age"? Or can a younger person die by natural causes, too? I ask this, because as I am writing this, in the article Deaths in 2009, someone is stated to have died "of natural causes" at the age of 58. Eduarodi ( talk) 08:34, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure these professionals use the phrase much, if at all, on death certificates. The phrase is relatively meaningless. Ykral ( talk) 09:41, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
It's just not specific enough. Organs fail due to natural causes. The cause of death should list which organ failure caused the heart to stop. Just saying "natural causes" is such a lazy cop-out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.73.133.192 ( talk) 00:26, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Regarding revert of the merge with manner of death...
@ Natureium: Based on the sources I've been able to find, this article seems to be confusing cause of death with manner of death; "death by natural causes" is described by sources as a manner, not a cause. Most of the material on this page was not about this manner of death, it was actually about unnatural manners of death, or old age as a cause of death. In doing the merge and redirect, I haven't deleted any material, but I have moved some material from this article to cause of death, which is where coverage of old as a cause of death seems to belong. Death by natural causes and unnatural death are both too short to deserve their own articles, and can be explained much more concisely in a single article, because most of the explaining is distinguishing between them and noting jurisdictional differences, all of which is now done by manner of death, which also more clearly explains the distinction from cause of death, and after the merge, that also only has to be done once. Does that all make sense? Am I missing something? -- Beland ( talk) 17:12, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
An issue has occurred due to this article being redirected; it is used infrequently (though it should be used much more often) as part of Template:Natural Causes, and this has resulted in a # symbol on pages without any clear explanation of what it means. As such, at "Death by natural causes" is clearly sufficiently notable to warrant its own page, we should reinstate it. BilledMammal ( talk) 03:49, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
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This article and unnatural death should really be merged into one, neither is particularly strong on its own. Richard001 23:57, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Can someone please help me understand this. Why is it that some people are recorded to have died of natural causes, whereas others may be noted down as dying of heart disease? I never understood this distinction, they are the same in theory. 77.96.240.178 ( talk) 13:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
It might be helpful if this article provided some "unnatural" causes of death for comparison. For example, is an infectious disease a "natural cause" of death? What about an accident, like falling down the stairs? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:49, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Is the term "death by natural causes" associated with "dying at an old age"? Or can a younger person die by natural causes, too? I ask this, because as I am writing this, in the article Deaths in 2009, someone is stated to have died "of natural causes" at the age of 58. Eduarodi ( talk) 08:34, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure these professionals use the phrase much, if at all, on death certificates. The phrase is relatively meaningless. Ykral ( talk) 09:41, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
It's just not specific enough. Organs fail due to natural causes. The cause of death should list which organ failure caused the heart to stop. Just saying "natural causes" is such a lazy cop-out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.73.133.192 ( talk) 00:26, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Regarding revert of the merge with manner of death...
@ Natureium: Based on the sources I've been able to find, this article seems to be confusing cause of death with manner of death; "death by natural causes" is described by sources as a manner, not a cause. Most of the material on this page was not about this manner of death, it was actually about unnatural manners of death, or old age as a cause of death. In doing the merge and redirect, I haven't deleted any material, but I have moved some material from this article to cause of death, which is where coverage of old as a cause of death seems to belong. Death by natural causes and unnatural death are both too short to deserve their own articles, and can be explained much more concisely in a single article, because most of the explaining is distinguishing between them and noting jurisdictional differences, all of which is now done by manner of death, which also more clearly explains the distinction from cause of death, and after the merge, that also only has to be done once. Does that all make sense? Am I missing something? -- Beland ( talk) 17:12, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
An issue has occurred due to this article being redirected; it is used infrequently (though it should be used much more often) as part of Template:Natural Causes, and this has resulted in a # symbol on pages without any clear explanation of what it means. As such, at "Death by natural causes" is clearly sufficiently notable to warrant its own page, we should reinstate it. BilledMammal ( talk) 03:49, 9 October 2021 (UTC)