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cjslep on May 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Teen shot herself with gunshot through mouth while...

According to [0]:

In the United States, decisions about whether deaths are listed as suicides on death certificates are usually made by a coroner or medical examiner.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3204347/

mcv on May 23, 2019 [–]

Does that make sense? In many cases, whether something is a suicide or not depends on non-medical evidence.

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