Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - V

[Perdita]

Even though Julie had terminal cancer, I thought that the police would still have been called for a sudden death, instead of just allowing her body to be taken to George's.

Sudden unexplained death would have needed autopsy.. but no need for it to be shown, I guess.. soapland like to skip time events that are not deemed necessary for viewers to understand the storyline

[Son of Cain]

Sudden unexplained death would have needed autopsy.. but no need for it to be shown, I guess.. soapland like to skip time events that are not deemed necessary for viewers to understand the storyline

Yes that is true, but in that case they probably should not have told us Julie's body had been brought back to the funeral parlour, I doubt they had carried out the autopsy already, and now that they have raised the question of an overdose, an autopsy would confirm or deny this. I did not think that the scene with the paramedics was well handled, it looked they like just packed up and left Eileen with her body.

[parkerman]

I did not think that the scene with the paramedics was well handled, it looked they like just packed up and left Eileen with her body.

That's because Asha wasn't there!

[Dennis tanner]

Sudden unexplained death would have needed autopsy.. but no need for it to be shown, I guess.. soapland like to skip time events that are not deemed necessary for viewers to understand the storyline

Without an official death certificate, the body would first have to go to the public mortuary.
It's mot the job of an ambulance to move a dead body.

[LouiseP]

Sudden unexplained death would have needed autopsy.. but no need for it to be shown, I guess.. soapland like to skip time events that are not deemed necessary for viewers to understand the storyline

It is not a sudden nor unexplained death when the patient is terminally ill with cancer and with a diagnosed short time to live. I don’t think a Post Mortem is required as it is known that she was terminally ill. A death certificate needs to be issued however by a doctor and the Coroner informed. It is called a post mortem in the UK and an autopsy in the US. I will check my facts though . Post Mortems are carried out to discover the cause of death.

[Son of Cain]

It is not a sudden nor unexplained death when the patient is terminally ill with cancer and with a diagnosed short time to live. I don’t think a Post Mortem is required as it is known that she was terminally ill. A death certificate needs to be issued however by a doctor and the Coroner informed. It is called a post mortem in the UK and an autopsy in the US. I will check my facts though . Post Mortems are carried out to discover the cause of death.

Did we know how much time Julie had left? I thought weeks if not months. If that is the case it could be argued that her death was sudden and maybe unexplained. Every now and again we hear of someone being charged with assisting a suicide when a terminally ill loved one dies before they were expected to. In those cases I am guessing a post mortem must have been carried out to determine the actual cause of death. Thinking about it now this is the situation that Eileen might find herself in.

I thought Julie's death seemed a bit rushed, as if, it in itself was not important, but that it is being used as a vehicle to take us to an after story.

[mysangry]

I live in Kent where it is warmer than the lakes, but they have a far greater variety of flowers in bloom than we do.

yea but they were plastic, you could see the mounds of soil holding them up, tacky!!

[Son of Cain]

yea but they were plastic, you could see the mounds of soil holding them up, tacky!!

Plastic? You say, surely not. Next you will be telling me there are no lakes. They are just large puddles and clever photography.

[Son of Cain]

Murder? That is a big jump from assisted dying. - For it to be murder she would have to have to given Julie the tablets against her will. They could never ever prove that. - Soap's always feel the need to be over dramatic.

[parkerman]

Good to see that Dee-Dee has found a new office, but I would have thought she might have found somewhere a bit bigger than a table in Roy's Rolls.