Thanatology is the name for it.

The same is true for the decision granting the IML autonomous status by providing it with an administrative board composed of one representative from each of the relevant ministries (justice and health) and chaired by the senior member of the faculty of medicine of the university of Haiti, as well as a managing director for the daily administration of the two services (thanatology and medicine for the living), who is responsible for assisting a team of trained forensic doctors.

On the one hand, the adoption of the draft statute giving the Institute of Forensic Medicine sufficient autonomy and establishing a board of administration composed of one representative from each of the oversight ministries (health and justice), a representative of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the State University of Haiti appointed by the Dean, and an administrator to assist the team of two forensic doctors trained in thanatology and medical care of the living; On the other, the decision setting the scale for the remuneration of forensic scientists.