indexing a project on the Cause of Death portal

I have been having trouble finding things in the Cause of Death portal -- categories were in odd places, or repeated, or what not --

so I reorganized the entire thing.

So if it is dreadful now, I am Very Sorry.

but if it's easier to use, then yes! that was me!

It looks fabulous to me, Anne. Greatly and muchly appreciated. I had no idea the portal would take off like this!

Looks good to me too. One question though I would have thought that the September 11, 2001 Memorial should be under a heading of 'acts of terrorism' for which there will be other projects no doubt eventually. Not 'mass murder by state'

Yes - there are other things to fix, too; the poisonings I put under accidental, but I think they need to get divided up, as some are homicides.

oh and we need an accidental gun death project.

Terry - interesting point. As a survivor of 9-11, I actually feel more comfortable categorizing that (spectacular) memorial project under the "mass murder by state" category .... And avoiding the loaded political implications of the term "terrorism" as long as I possibly can. :)

I wasn't present of course but i certainly remember news commentators saying that underlying the shock was the disbelief that the US had become victims of Terrorism for the first time. To me calling it murder by state sounds even worse!

Maybe that's part of the point. :)

At this point, I don't want to be involved with "terrorism" projects, and we went through working out a semantic wrangling for "cause of death" as an umbrella ... And we reached consensus with "Mass murder by state.". The project narrative shows how it covers a variety of historic events.

I like the reorganization!

I have submitted a few questions in the discussions, that have not be answered. I have profiles that need to be included in cause of death.

Kwame, if you have profiles they belong in, go ahead and make the project. i only question really generic categories.

ok.

here is another: murdered by political rival

Gen. James H. Clanton (CSA)

That one is a "reason" versus a "cause."

The cause of death field in Geni is the what we're likely to see on a death certificate; what the medical examiner or coroner determines is the medical reason for the cessation of life. So this would be "homicide by gunshot" (or whatever method caused him to expire) for "cause of death.".

Certainly it would make an interesting list to compile: but i don't see it as a project for this portal so much.