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Fictitious death
Yesterday evening's episode of Spooks on BBC1 saw off the heroine. She died, supposedly, after a (not so) lethal injection administered by someone who, having made a miraculous recovery from paraplegia, had defected to the bad guys.
It was a novel but implausible story. A person who is unconscious enough to fool some that she is dead, needs special care. Without it she will die. The body deteriorates quickly if the blood pressure is low. Pressure sores will develop unless the body is turned often and pressure areas, such as heels and buttocks, are protected. The airway of a deeply unconscious person lying supine is likely, guaranteed I think, to become obstructed. This itself will kill them.
The death of someone dying in unexpected or unnatural circumstances has to be reported to a coroner. He or she will order a post mortem. Even if officials can forge certificates and bypass procedures, they cannot bypass nature. Someone who has been unconscious for a few days is not going to suddenly sit up and toddle off into the sunset as the heroine did last night while the rest of her team stood round her, unknown to them, empty coffin.
Quote for today
It happened to be an iron-grey autumnal day, with a shrewd east wind blowing--a day in keeping with the proceedings. Mr Dombey represented in himself the wind, the shade, and the autumn of the christening. He stood in his library to receive the company, as hard and cold as the weather; and when he looked out through the glass room, at trees in the little garden, their brown and yellow leaves came fluttering down, as if he blighted them.
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, 1848
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