Arranging a funeral

Bath_cube

If someone dies at home I do know from personal experience that they have the persons body taken to the nearest hospital. If it's a sudden unexpected death like my mum's over 2 years ago then the body will remain with the hospital for a least a week for forensic purposes. I'm not sure about the procedure for care home deaths but I would think if that if it was unexpected the same procedure would apply. It sounds awful but the local coroner has a legal and moral duty to make certain the death wasn't caused by suspicious circumstance in a sudden unexpected demise. I was told this when my mum had been in the mortuary for almost a fortnight. The funeral home we chose could not collect her until the senior pathologist at the hospital confirked they were satisfied it was a non circumspect death.

Silvertabby

“ Isn't the location of the body shown on the 'Green Form', which is issued by the Registrar and then given to the funeral director as the authority for burial/cremation?
Originally posted by Silvertabby ”

That's what I thought - or at least assumed. I don't remember being asked where the body was at any point. Posted by Poppystar

I may be wrong - it was a stressful time - but I can't remember the undertaker asking me where my sister's body was either. She was actually in a hospital in another (but nearby) large town - so it wouldn't have been easy for the undertaker to have found her by themselves.

However, on thinking back, I know I was given a form by the hospital to give to the registrar, so that form, whatever it was, must have shown the location of the body.

Uxb

Bath_cube wrote: »

If someone dies at home I do know from personal experience that they have the persons body taken to the nearest hospital.

I had this example
Death Certs say "Cause of death certified by HM Coroner without inquest".
I had no idea where they took the body - it falls under the category of "not my problem" - I'm employing you as undertakers - its your problem and I'm sure you have contacts and methods that you use and access to stuff to enable you to do this.

I recall that no paperwork ever came to me.
I was given the name of the body removing funeral directors - on contract to the police I'd imagine and passed this on to my own funeral directors I was employing to sort it out between them
I was contacting the local registrar by phone as to when would they have the papers direct to enable me to come and register the death.

Pun

Bath_cube wrote: »

If someone dies at home I do know from personal experience that they have the persons body taken to the nearest hospital. If it's a sudden unexpected death like my mum's over 2 years ago then the body will remain with the hospital for a least a week for forensic purposes.

Not always. A close relative of mine died a few months ago at home and the body was removed by the undertakers to their chapel of rest.

thorsoak

Bath_cube wrote: »

If someone dies at home I do know from personal experience that they have the persons body taken to the nearest hospital. If it's a sudden unexpected death like my mum's over 2 years ago then the body will remain with the hospital for a least a week for forensic purposes. I'm not sure about the procedure for care home deaths but I would think if that if it was unexpected the same procedure would apply. It sounds awful but the local coroner has a legal and moral duty to make certain the death wasn't caused by suspicious circumstance in a sudden unexpected demise. I was told this when my mum had been in the mortuary for almost a fortnight. The funeral home we chose could not collect her until the senior pathologist at the hospital confirked they were satisfied it was a non circumspect death.

Not necessarily if a death is expected/immenent - my OH died at home, from pancreatic cancer -it was expected, and the district nurse had been attending daily (hospice at home). When he died, the doctor came and certified his death and his body was taken to the local funeral director's chapel of rest. My son and I registered the death two days later and the funeral took place ten days after he died.

Margot123

When my Mum passed away in a care home, it was they who liaised with the funeral director. Although I had been asked which company I was using, over the phone on being informed of her death. The care home were brilliant; they rang and kept me updated with what was happening, even letting me know that she had been collected and exactly where she was. I was also given a 24hr phone number in case I wanted to see her at any time.
I admit this was exceptional service from both care home and funeral director, but I would hope that others are treated with the same respect.