Heat Death
Heat Death :
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office certifies a death as heat related if there was no history of trauma or evidence of fatal injury and the case met at least one of several criteria. First, the measured body temperture had to be 105 [degrees] F or higher before or immediately after death. Second, there had to be evidence of high environmental temperature at the scene of death, usualy greater than 100 [degrees] F Finally, the body had to be decomposed, and investigation had to disclose that the person was last seen alive during the heat wave period and that the environmental temperture at the time would have been high. (Whitman, et al., 1997).
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