Kuolintapausta

Kuolintapausta is a Finnish term used in legal, medical, and journalistic contexts to refer to a death case — an incident in which a person dies and which may be subject to investigation, documentation, or reporting.

The word is a compound of kuolema (death) and tapaus (case or incident). The form kuolintapausta is the singular partitive/genitive form, used in sentences such as "tutkitaan kuolintapausta" (the death case is under investigation) or "kuolintapausta koskevat tiedot" (information concerning the death case).

Kuolintapausta is a generic label that can apply to any death-related case without specifying the cause of death. It is commonly found in police reports, autopsy notes, and media reports, where the emphasis is on the incident as an entity rather than on the underlying cause.

Relation to related terms: In many contexts kuolemantapaus is used to denote the event of death itself, while kuolintapaus highlights the investigative or case-related aspect surrounding the death. The choice between them can depend on stylistic or jurisdictional conventions.

See also: kuolema; tapaus; tutkinta; oikeuslaitos; forensics.