Lincoln Abeyta was 10 years old when he died in August 2024. His parents used a seizure monitoring system that alerts after 15 seconds of movement. The seizure lasted about 10.
His name is now attached to a Colorado statute that took effect Aug. 12, and the problem it addresses is one most people never think about: what gets written on a death certificate when someone with epilepsy dies suddenly and an autopsy finds nothing.
