PLEASE answer this question about Obituaries?

Question

have been hearing that an old teacher of mine committed suicide. I never belived it but finally looked it up. I read his obituary and It confirmed that he has passed away.\

My question is, How can I find out how he died? I know that's not really important, but He was SUCH A HAPPY person, and I want to know if he really committed suicide or not. Is there any way to find out?

Answer 1

Obtain a record of his death certificate from the county. This will have the type and cause of death classified.

Answer 2

He may have been happy on the outside, but not the inside.

Answer 3

you could maybe google it.  whats his name, where is he from?

Answer 4

I don't think you will from the obits, but if you ask around enough, you may find your answer. And it seems to me all the friends that I've had that killed them selves (and yes, many) they were all very happy. It was like a mask to hide the pain.

~SP

Answer 5

You could check the newspaper that serves the community where he lives. If that newspaper runs obits as a community service, the story might well say that he died of an apparent self-inflicted wound. If people pay for the obits, they control the content, and finding out won't be so easy.

Some papers use a code phrase when deaths are messy. One paper I worked for said that so and so died "after a long illness", which designated cancer.

Unfortunately, AIDS is also a long illness...

The paper also used to say that someone died at a local hosptal when they expired on the premises of a state-run psychiatric facility. Otherwise, the hospital was ID'd by name.

You could check the paper's crime reports and see what sort of call was dispatched.

Failing that, you'd have to contact the poliuce and the medical examiner/coroner yourself and try to find out info that way.

Answer 6

You should be able to go to the courthouse (records) and look at the death certificate. It is public information you don't have to be family.

Answer 7

i think short of asking a family member there is not a way unless autopsies are public record and one was done

a police report who have to be filed you can look there

Answer 8

Sometime news papers will put the autopsy results in a daily log section. I am just going on experience from the paper I have read. They only posted the autopsy results like once a month. Look on-line at your local paper or where ever the teacher is from and go back on the achieves or type it in the search box his name and see what you come up with. Hope this helps.