A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?
Lucinda HiamTheodore Estrin-SerluiDanny DorlingMartin MckeeJon MintonPublished in: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2023)
The increase in people found dead from unknown causes suggests wider societal breakdowns of both formal and informal social support networks. They are concerning and warrant urgent further investigation. We call on national and international authorities to consider measures that would make it possible to identify these deaths more easily in routine data.