3.5 Stars. Cora is a slave on the Randall plantation, the place where she was born and where her grandmother and mother were also slaves. Caesar, a new arrival on the property, offers her an opportunity to accompany him on the Underground Railroad, but she is hesitant.
Death by natural causes. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to an illness or an internal malfunction of the body not directly influenced by external forces.n contrast, death caused by active intervention is called unnatural death. The unnatural causes are usually given as accident (implying no unreasonable voluntary risk), misadventure (accident following a willful and dangerous risk), suicide, or homicide. In some settings, other categories may be added.
and number of deaths. The estimates of cause of death were computed by multiply-ing estimates of the cause-attributable fraction of preventable deaths with the total mortality data. Main Outcome Measures Actual causes of death. Results The leading causes of death in 2000 were tobacco (435000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths), poor diet and physical inactivity (400000 deaths; 16.6%), and alcohol consumption (85000 deaths; 3.5%). Other actual causes of death were mi-crobial agents (75000), toxic agents (55000), motor vehicle crashes (43000), inci-dents involving firearms (29000), sexual behaviors (20000), and illicit use of drugs (17000). Conclusions These analyses show that smoking remains the leading cause of mor-tality.