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BackgroundThe quality of post-mortem external examinations of corpses has been criticized as unsatisfactory for many years. The municipal public health and environment department of Munich showed in a review of death certificates from 2010 to 2013 that 1 out of 10 death certificates was incorrect. Our investigation in 2014 and 2015 focused on the falsely certified “natural deaths”, as here serious consequences, also in the field of criminal liability, are possible.