The worst cases really are the cases where we're not notified until a long time after legal death or cases where an autopsy is required.
最糟糕的情况确实是在合法死亡后很长时间才通知我们,或者需要进行尸检。
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Legal death
Legal death is a government's official recognition that a person has died. Normally this is done by issuing a death certificate. In most cases, such a certificate is only issued either by a doctor's declaration of death or by an identified corpse.