The body of a man was found in Saskatoon last month, but the police failed to report it and autopsy results will not be known for months.
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“Where we find it difficult, I think for either agency, to do public announcements, is if we’re not clear on the cause of death,”r perhaps there’s a death that occurs outside and there may be contributing factors such as addictions, potential for overdose and those sorts of things, and we sometimes don’t know that right away. It might take some investigation.”Article content
It’s easy to see the flaw in Cooper’s logic here, given the reality in which we live; rumours, half-truths and outright falsehoods spread so quickly via electronic communication. Given this, it seems prudent to let people know about potential freezing deaths, given that society cannot address such fatalities if nobody knows whether they are happening or how.In the most recent five-year period for which all investigations have been closed, 2014-15 to 2018-19, the coroner’s office found that 76 people in Saskatchewan died from hyperthermia/exposure. That’s an average of 15 per year.
Drugs or alcohol were found to be a factor in 53 of the deaths. Only four of those deaths happened to people with an “unknown” address, a classification that requires more detail.
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