Using this evidence along with correlating weather conditions known to be present around that time, an entomologist was able to give a postmortem interval.
A biological explanation for memory deficits in aging includes a postmortem examination of five brains of elderly people with better memory than average.
Other postmortem diagnostic assessments point toward paranoid dementia due to an unknown brain trauma (perhaps resulting from the unknown illness which he reported).
Postmortem studies provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study different brain attributes that would be unable to be studied on a living person 3.