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Matthew Irving

42 years old · died February 3, 2016 · Iowa Medical and Classification Center, Oakdale, Iowa

Matthew Irving, 42, died on February 3, 2016, at the Iowa Medical Classification Center in Oakdale, Iowa. According to a Department of Corrections news release, he collapsed in the hospice care unit, and an on-duty doctor pronounced him dead of natural causes. The release said he had been diagnosed with a sarcoma that had spread to his lungs and bones.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Iowa Department of Corrections said he died of natural causes from metastatic sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma, a sarcoma that had spread to his lungs and bones.

Reported by: Iowa Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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