I too thought an autopsy was required and just assumed it was done. I was asked to have his body removed 2 hours after his death (didn't even know who to call as all this just started and we were not NEAR that point of planning). Maybe I thought the funeral home did the autopsy or was in shock - just thought they did that. He was at the funeral home by 9:00 - appx 12 hours after he died. On the way to pay for the cremation someone mentioned an autopsy so I asked when we arrived. Figured all that out - was denied so I begged until I had $6000 to pay for the private autopsy. The ONLY reason I wanted it was for reporting purposes. I was told they would not report this to the Erbitux people or really reported at all to any cancer society. I felt the numbers would never change if it was not reported. I would have never read all this stuff if they had just did it and determined which risk it was that killed him, so the numbers being reported are true. OK, so I am a little wierd - I thought it was my moral duty to do as asked and report this. I follow directions and the site says to report it and that was all I asked. I accepted my husbands death the minute they told me and knew what it was - he was that 1 - someone has to be that 1 and he was it. He drew the short straw. It was being denied any info, any records, when he died, how he died, no calls from any of his doctors (they were not even told) that made me even start looking more into this.