NC S405

Requires the Chief Medical Examiner to establish a sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP) awareness training program to educate all medical examiners in North Carolina about SUDEP and how to investigate it as a potential cause of death.

Mandates that medical examiners include in their death investigations an inquiry to determine whether a death was directly caused by seizure or epilepsy.

Requires the Chief Medical Examiner to indicate SUDEP on the death certificate when autopsy findings are consistent with the definition of known or suspected SUDEP.

Directs medical examiners to request that the decedent's authorized representative submit relevant medical information to a SUDEP registry for research purposes and to consider making an anatomical gift of the decedent's brain for SUDEP research or education.

Becomes effective October 1, 2015.