Talk:Through a Glass, Darkly/@comment-24784093-20150104225005/@comment-5660329-20150105022545

I don't know for sure because i'm not in law enforcement, but I believe that if there is a crime (like what happened to Mona) and they see the blood and test the blood to see what happened, they can say the person was murdered. several tests would need to be done beforehand, however. I know that if there is an instance in which a person is braindead or missing for an extended period of time (i'm talking several years), they can be declared "dead"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declared_death_in_absentia