To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Voltaire

The autopsy answers the final question: why did life pass from the body of this individual? It is a question we have all asked when a loved one, friend, coworker, or even a public figure dies. The more untimely the death, the more tragic it seems, so many more questions arise. A wife asks why her healthy husband suddenly collapses, unresponsive. A young bricklayer cries out in pain and falls to his death from a great height as his coworkers look on in horror. An entire country wants to know how its president was assassinated. The autopsy serves to answer these and many other questions.