I have never had a villager die in front of me and I always wondered how people knew how their villagers died. I will try to find the game log. I am not real computer savvy and I guess I am not very keep the villagers alive savvy either. How sad.
Sorry to hear how your game went!
I just had a village die in front of me. Well, not directly in front, because when someone dies their bones automatically get teleported to the centre of the village (to the left of the well, where you normally find the corpses). It was really weird because I just dragged some guy to go clear the blockage to the pond, and the next thing I knew he wasn't there anymore. His remains showed up in the middle of the village, though, which was kinda spooky (did he know that he was about to die, and just dropped dead on that spot in the middle of me dragging him?).