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Do you have to have an autopsy to be buried?

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No. It depends on the laws of each state or country, but usually only for suspicious, violent or unatural deaths, deaths in care or custody, or the death was not reasonably expected to be the outcome of a health procedure.

In the majority of deaths, an autopsy is not performed.

Not every dead person has an autopsy. Only if the family wants to know what caused the death.

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