My mother's autopsy and subsequent coroner's testimony stated that she had alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, indications of alcohol-enabled pancreatitis, and cardiovascular evidence of alcohol abuse..
thing is -- I had lived with her and taken care of her for 20+ years. She hadn't touched alcohol during that time. She stated that before that time that she had been an occasional light social drinker -- and her social community backed her up on that conclusion; there was no real evidence of alcohol abuse in her life.
She had other vices; she smoked until death. She didn't drink.
She died at 65.
So, I ask because I no longer trust coroner's reports wholeheartedly. I think they intend well, and I think they're probably roughly accurate about the state of the body at death -- but I think they probably miss a lot of nuance and probably come up with a lot of shoddy predictions regarding 'lived lifestyle'.
P.S. if you ended up curious as to why she had all that internal injury -- she had a terrible fight with necrotizing fasciitis on one of her legs after an injury during gardening from a rose thorn and subsequent infection earlier in her life -- her ICU stay was extremely long and filled with experimental drugs/antibiotics that came with all sorts of precautions and side effects.
Her GP at the time believed the liver damage to be caused by one of the (many) antibiotics.