"sudden death following restraint"

The Cause of Death for Mr. Dziekanski was listed as "sudden death following restraint". [LINK]

"sudden death following restraint"

Okay - I give up. Where's the actual 'cause'? I see four words and not one of them offers anything that actually amounts to a cause of death.

At least they managed to avoid another meaningless phrase, 'Excited Delirium'. But now they've created another phrase almost devoid of clear meaning.

The word 'sudden' and the words 'following restraint' certainly indicate that the restraint was temporally-associated with the death (and in the correct order). What a coincidence!

Maybe one could go out on a limb and leave out the first three words.

Then it would be: Cause of death: "restraint".


Perhaps they've run into the Proof Issue that I have discussed previously:

Imagine a world where a potentially-lethal "nonlethal/less-lethal" weapon exists that can work its unreliable magic while leaving no detectable postmortem evidence when things go badly. Imagine the controversy that would arise in such a circumstance. Oh - here we are.