On Easter Sunday morning in 2006, the lifeless body of Rosemary Infante was found at her home. She had been ill, but her death was unexpected and did not occur with “medical attendance.” Under such circumstances, the Public Health Law required an investigation by a medical examiner, who determined that her death was from “external causes.” This, in turn, required that the examiner opine on whether the death was “probably accidental, suicidal or homicidal.”1
An autopsy was done and revealed that the deceased, at the time of her death, had an extremely high blood concentration of the prescription drug fluoxetine (more commonly known as Prozac), which is used to treat depression. The examiner’s autopsy report concluded that the death had been a suicide.
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