My Wife Died, I’m Looking For Answers

Hello Reddit community. As title said, my wife suddenly passed away yesterday morning. She had some sort of a seizure which she didn’t recover from in emergency care. She had a history of liver cirrhosis and other related issues, but the death was very sudden and unsettling, to say the least. She wasn’t even nearly to be on a transplant list, that’s how “not bad” she was. Medical examiner said that they won’t do any additional investigations and that the body can be released to a funeral home. Funeral home of my choice picked up my wife, but now I think I want to do autopsy - I believe that the sudden death might be a doctor’s mistake. My wife took a new medication night before (Atorvastatin 20 mg, it has hepatic-related side effects and precautions ), and she also took a cough syrup (Dextromethorphan + Guaifenesin), which turned out to also have hepatic-related precautions which I learned from the internet, and the bottle didn’t say a THING about it. My wife always was a special in a way, would get rare side-effects on medications and had a complicated health history in overall.
With that back story, I have these questions:
- Is this enough for me to require an autopsy?
- Is autopsy possible after a body was picked up by funeral home?
- How to arrange autopsy, will the hospital she passed away at help?
- What might be my legal options against an individual who prescribed her Atorvastatin or against a drug store which brand the cough syrup was, if the report will say that those were the reasons?
Thank you, Reddit.
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