It is all in the title.
WRONG.........Anyone who Finds the Body...!!!
That is what I found also, every state is different. Like, when you find a person has passed you don't just call the funeral home. And if the body is being donated to science, someone still has to come and dispatch it to some place. Every body has to be accounted for legally. that sounds like a joke.Some places EMT can, other places EMT can't.
@Sourdough I also posted this which I don't think you saw, but maybe!The county medical examiner if it is a death at home, as well as a doctor or coroner, here in Texas. It may be different in other counties, I don't know. Not really something I would research ordinarily. That was my experience. Nurse wouldn't come out, said CME had to do it.
In Maryland, the hospice nurse declared it.
It is very important. Lobby a Moderator to move the thread.I am curious, why is this important
Sounds like a was of time and resources to me. But that's probably the law there. Laws are made by politicians. Who for the most part, don't appear to know much about things they make laws for. Which explains why you might be required to drag an obviously dead body to a hospital, wasting the time of everybody involved and potentially causing additional and unnecessary mental duress for the family. Common sense should rule. But it doesn't.I notice in Anchorage, even when they find a body that is clearly dead, they take it to the hospital.
Even when they've been run through a highway snowblower?I think there is also a regulation on "closing" the body bag "TOTALLY" till someone with the required authority has declared the body deceased.
I notice in Anchorage, even when they find a body that is clearly dead, they take it to the hospital.
I am questioning who is qualified "Legally" to declare someone dead.Well, I did one time. A dead guy was still breathing, sort of, and when I reached under to support his head, my fingers went into his brain up to my knuckles. You aren't coming back from a 7.62 head shot when your brains are laying in the dirt, so I let him be at peace. Wear your helments folks.
I think this is what he was driving at...This subject is far more important they most appreciate. It can greatly affect the persons last will and testament. Even if the deaths are only a few minutes apart.
There are "important" issues with chain of custody of a body.Sounds like a was of time and resources to me. But that's probably the law there. Laws are made by politicians. Who for the most part, don't appear to know much about things they make laws for. Which explains why you might be required to drag an obviously dead body to a hospital, wasting the time of everybody involved and potentially causing additional and unnecessary mental duress for the family. Common sense should rule. But it doesn't.
Car crashes are the most common situation where time of death becomes important. for settling an estate.If the wife dies first, then the husband next, the estate would be distributed according to the husband's will, the wife's will is meaningless.
What would be the "important issue" of taking, say, a decomposed body to a hospital? Chain of custody is one thing, but you don't need to add extra and unnecessary links to the chain. A decomposed body is "obviously deceased" and could go straight to the morgue without violating any logical chain of custody. I imagine this is what's actually done in practice, even in Anchorage. Many morgues (which handle dead bodies) are inside hospitals (which normally handle live bodies or questionable bodies). This may be why obviously dead bodies are "always taken to the hospital" (because that's where the morgue is - probably in the basement).There are "important" issues with chain of custody of a body.
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