Under California law, a birth must be registered before the baby turns one, which will be in three days time. Poignant: The couple have named the girl after Maya's later mother Minnie Riperton, who died aged 31, pictured here in 1978 a year before her death with her daughter Maya, son Marc and husband Richard.
Gravel as a cause of death could be kidneystones. If a husband and wife both died of it....could it possibly have been environmental? Maybe something they were eating? The reason they both had it is a guess...but gravel usually refers to a type of stones in the body.
Death from a massive hemispheric infarct is caused by cerebral edema and herniations, not by the loss of brain tissue. Recovery of function, after an infarct, is due initially to restoration of perfusion in the penumbra (see below) and then to settling down of cerebral edema.