[Data-modeling] deceased organism cause of death

[John Giannandrea]

The cause_of_death could be moved to /biology if we wanted to conflate  
them.

But then you would be saying that the  reciprocal property 'People Who  
Died This Way' should be generalized to 'organisms who died this way'  
and that seems too general to be as useful.

The question boils down to whether its more valuable to know in  
general that some people and some horses died of a heart attack, or  
keep these in two separate semantic buckets and if you want to know  
that you have to look in two places.    Lumping vs. splitting.

In this case Id propose splitting, keeping the distinction between  
deceased_organism and deceased_person.   This will also have the nice  
property that when looking at a cause of death you will see two  
classes of the afflicted.

-jg

Alexander Marks wrote:
> Apart from it being strange to expect something in the /person  
> domain, is there a good reason why /biology/deceased_organism/ 
> cause_of_death shouldn't expect /people/cause_of_death? In other  
> words, is it important to distinguish between human and non-human  
> causes of death?