my mom died suddenly at a nursing home at 92 years old. when I got there I looked her over and noticed a lot of swelling I didnt see two days before. I lifted the blanket and saw a lot of blue veins on her upper thighs. the cause of death was cardiac arrest but I wondered what might have come first.  Are the blue veins a normal thing that happens?  I had to travel 2 hours to get there
Your mother died of cardiac arrest .sorry to hear that .now see ...in cardiac arrest heart stops all of a sudden .and usually a resuscitation attempts are done by doctors .and there may be pooling of blood in mother leg veins as heart is not able to receive and pump blood further ...second thing is that she may be having some clotting blood in leg veins ...as i donor know exactly what triggered your mother cardiac arrest as this can be better told by treating doctor. As you saw your mother in 2 hours ...surely the prominent veins were not due to putrefaction changes as they donor come so early