This issue has not been updated in over 1 year. Consequently, this issue is being closed and has been tagged with the Graveyard label as part of the backlog clean-up initiative on Nov 9, 2020.
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From line 1186 in PatientServiceImpl.java of org.openmrs.api.impl:
obsDeath.setValueCodedName(currCause.getName()); // ABKTODO: presume current locale?