What Exactly Does It Mean To Die Of ‘Natural Causes’?

By Dr. Dave Hnida
(CBS4) – When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died this weekend at age 79, legal authorities in Texas announced that he died of “natural causes.” This official terminology was used by a local Justice of the Peace, who determined the cause of death as “natural” by phone, without actually seeing or examining his body.
The Justice of the Peace, however, did interview people on the scene, as well as talk to Justice Scalia’s personal physicia