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All states require autopsies in cases of sudden and unexplained death. Source: http://www.radiologytoday.net/archive/rt01282008p20.shtml If the death is preliminarily believed to be from natural causes, or something that is easily explained, like a fall from an 80-story balcony, then the autopsy can be waived, and that's up to the Chief Medical Examiner ("Coroner") to make that decision. In some jurisdictions, the next-of-kin can request that no autopsy be performed, as was the case with the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, who was ALLEGEDLY murdered by her lover, then-Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1969. The rules in Massachusetts mandated that an autopsy would be performed on her cadaver, but her parents insisted on her body being transported to their state, and that no autopsy would be performed on their daughter, so after her corpse was transported out of Massachusetts, it was immediately cremated. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne +5
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