The phrase "attribute the death of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the cause or reason behind someone's death, often in a context of analysis or reporting.
Example: "The researchers attribute the death of the endangered species to habitat loss and climate change."
Alternatives: "ascribe the death of" or "assign responsibility for the death of".
To attribute the deaths of these three teenagers solely to their internet browsing history is simplistic.
Third, when patients with advanced cancer die, physicians and family members often attribute the death to the expected complications of the malignancy.
For fifteen years, the New York filmmaker Parvez Sharma attributed the death of his mother, a Muslim, to her discovery of his homosexuality.
The item was prompted by a ruling from a British coroner who attributed the death of a 59-year-old retired soccer player last year to "industrial disease".
Writing in Citiscope, Olli Sulopuisto attributes the death of the service to the lack of scale of users to make it cost effective, and the significant public cost of achieving that.
Israeli officials had initially attributed the death of the prisoner, Arafat Jaradat, 30, to a heart attack; Palestinian officials said that the lack of heart damage, coupled with the signs on Mr. Jaradat's body, pointed to torture.
However, he attributes the death of his wife and daughter to this trait, saying that if he had defied orders, he may have been able to protect them.
We attributed the death of a tree to the pinewood nematode according to the following typical symptoms: browning needles, many sawyer oviposition scars, declining of resin excretion, and blue xylem stains.
Three respondents attributed the death of previous audit committees to the failure of the hospital administration to implement audit recommendations.
This was illustrated by one mother who attributed the death of her sister to failure to comply to midwives advice: "My sister was four months pregnant.
