在德意志联邦共和国的每个州都有关于尸检的立法规定,虽然每个州都有,但大致内容相似。以巴伐利亚州为例,每具尸体都得由医生检查,进行死亡、死亡方式和死因鉴定。(法律规定:医生由于粗心或故意将死因诊断错误将罚款和坐牢一年,或单独惩罚其中一项)。当经过医生鉴定后,认为不是自然死亡和怀疑非自然死亡或死因不明 In each of the states of the Federal Republic of Germany, there are legislative provisions on autopsy, though similar to each state. In Bavaria, for example, every body has to be examined by a doctor for death, the method of death and the cause of death. (The law states that a doctor will be fined and jailed for one year, or punished individually for misdiagnosing a mistake due to carelessness or willful intentional death). When the doctor identified, it is not natural and suspected to be unnatural death or unknown cause of death unknown