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Asked by 10ssmith to Anna, Jonathan, Samantha, Sam on 3 Jul 2012.
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anon answered on 3 Jul 2012:
I once did a post mortem of a man who had an epileptic seizure. On opening the wind pipe (trachea) I found it completely stuffed with curry flavoured pot noodle. The poor guy had eaten the noodles, had a seizure and aspirated the noodle causing him to choke and die. I have never seen so much food in the trachea.
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Samantha Weaver answered on 3 Jul 2012:
We don’t get many samples from dead people, but when we do it is usually babies that have died whilst sleeping in their parent’s bed (co-sleeping), people who have drunk too much, and people that have died in a fire and we have to work out if they were dead before the fire started or not.
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Sam Chilka answered on 4 Jul 2012:
I don’t do post mortems any more, but I used to when I was training. Some of the more difficult cases were the ones where the person lived alone and had died at home, and it had been some time before the body had been discovered – usually the neighbours reported the smell to the police. In these cases the bodies were usually very decomposed, and I found it much more difficult to find out why they had died.
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Jonathan Kay answered on 4 Jul 2012:
We had to work out why two people who lived together both suddenly became seriously ill at the same time. The reason was that they had been picking some wild plants to eat and had got the identification wrong. An expert from Kew Gardens helped us work it out. The plants were known to be poisonous but looked very like another plant which is good to eat.
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