Coroner Report

When Mercutio was brought to me for examination I immediately noticed severe inflammation in the area of his heart. A sword of a half-inch in diameter penetrated Mercutio’s aorta. This caused massive trauma to the heart. However, despite the injury, Mercutio was able to live a few minutes after the initial stabbing. The pain must have been unbearable.
When the heart was penetrated, the aorta was ruptured, leaving blood quickly poor from the heart and fill his lungs. Mercutio drowned in his own blood.
During the autopsy of Tybalt, I found he died of massive trauma to his chest cavity. The sword broke through the sternum, lacerated the upper left portion of the left lung, allowing the lung to collapse. The sword then penetrated the heart and broke the mitral valve allowing for the blood to flow backwards into the heart, and dilute the oxygen rich blood. The sword continued through the ...