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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS6E5 Birds of Prey]]", one of the [[BodyOfTheWeek Bodies of the Week]] is found dead at home after visiting an estate that was connected to several other deaths. It comes out that he'd been involved in a car accident; his [[ElderAbuse much-abused]] elderly aunt noticed that his injuries were worse than he realized, but put him to bed and [[MurderByInaction left him to die in his sleep]].



* There is a particularly '''harsh''' example in the German crime series ''Series/Polizeiruf110'' when a bomb explosion in a crowded Munich pedestrian underpass throws a brick against the back of the head of a young woman. In the minutes following the detonation, she wanders around among the dead and dying, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction nonchalantly looking for her purse]]. She is seen much later, lying on the floor next to her purse, getting zipped up in a body bag. One can only assume she succumbed to her head trauma while paramedics were busy aiding much more obviously injured people.

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* There is a particularly '''harsh''' example in the German crime series ''Series/Polizeiruf110'' has a particularly harsh example when a bomb explosion in a crowded Munich pedestrian underpass throws a brick against the back of the head of a young woman. In the minutes following the detonation, she wanders around among the dead and dying, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction nonchalantly looking for her purse]]. She is seen much later, lying on the floor next to her purse, getting zipped up in a body bag. One can only assume she succumbed to her head trauma while paramedics were busy aiding much more obviously injured people.
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*** Lesser doses of radiation can draw this out further, causing death years or even ''decades'' down the line, with radiation-induced cancer being the most common culprit. The most widespread instance of this was linked to the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan, as the areas around Hiroshima and Nagasaki began to see substantially increased numbers of aggressive cancers and other radiation-related ailments in the 1950s.

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*** Lesser doses of radiation can draw this out further, causing death years or even ''decades'' down the line, with radiation-induced cancer being the most common culprit. The most widespread instance of this was linked to the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan, as the areas around Hiroshima and Nagasaki began to see substantially increased numbers of aggressive cancers and other radiation-related ailments in the 1950s. In fact, some of the victims of these ailments ''hadn't even been born yet'' when the bombs were dropped; children whose mothers were pregnant during the bombings were found to have absorbed radiation in utero, leading to these potentially lethal conditions.
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* Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary was stabbed through the heart with a sharpened nail file in 1898 while walking down a pier to board a ship--but the nail file was very thin and made a very narrow wound, and no one saw any external bleeding because of the tight corset the Empress was wearing. She actually got up after her assailant ran away, continued walking down the pier, and boarded the ship. After boarding the ship she whispered "What has happened to me?" and collapsed into unconsciousness, dying of internal bleeding shortly thereafter.

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* Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary UsefulNotes/ElisabethOfAustria-Hungary was stabbed through the heart with a sharpened nail file in 1898 while walking down a pier to board a ship--but the nail file was very thin and made a very narrow wound, and no one saw any external bleeding because of the tight corset the Empress was wearing. She actually got up after her assailant ran away, continued walking down the pier, and boarded the ship. After boarding the ship she whispered "What has happened to me?" and collapsed into unconsciousness, dying of internal bleeding shortly thereafter.

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