Discuss why estimating the time of death can be problematic.
What will be an ideal response?
Many physico-chemical changes begin to take place in the body immediately or shortly after death and progress in a fairly orderly fashion until the body is fully decomposed. Each change has its own time factor or rate. The rates of development of postmortem changes are strongly influenced by unpredictable changes within the body and environmental factors. Consequently, the longer the postmortem interval, the wider is the range of estimate as to when the death probably occurred. In other words, the longer the postmortem interval, the less precise is the estimate of the time of death.
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