First Steps When Someone Dies at Home?
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OPC'n
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I'm just sitting here wondering why you were suddenly seized with panic about having a dead body in your house 
LOL! Anyway, as far as the cost of calling 911 I'm sure that cost would fall on the dead person's family. Don't worry I have family members with money who will pay for 911 if I ever happen to be dead at your house. However, they won't pay a ransom for my body so you would be better off calling 911 just to get me out of your house.
LOL! Anyway, as far as the cost of calling 911 I'm sure that cost would fall on the dead person's family. Don't worry I have family members with money who will pay for 911 if I ever happen to be dead at your house. However, they won't pay a ransom for my body so you would be better off calling 911 just to get me out of your house.
OPC'n
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Ruben, I believe it depends on where you live and it also depends on how much medical assistance 911 provides. Since the person is dead already there isn't going to be much in the way of assistance. If they have health insurance, then their health insurance will pay for the costs. Otherwise, check with your home insurance company. They probably cover such things for a very small amount of money since it doesn't happen often that your "friends" die in your home.....have you checked the expiration dates on your can foods? lol!
Wayne
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No, no. Tim, thy name is misunderstanding. Heidi's cooking is fine. It all has to do with Ruben's irrational fear of zombies.
OPC'n
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Well, you can but they are going to dispatch an EMS to your house anyway just in case the person is alive and you just don't know it. Also, they are going to wonder why you didn't call 911 first......looks suspicious really.
DMcFadden
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Ruben, in the midst of your creepy obsession with unlikely topics, remember YOU will not have to pay to remove your own body. 
Nor will you be billed for the removal of anybody else's body other than your spouse. In such a case, your mortuary of choice will likely pick up your dear wife's still beautiful corpse and include any charges in the funeral arrangements.
In the nearly impossible event that you have a guest die in your house, you will not be billed (unless your laws are VERY different from ours) for calling the PD or 911. Since it is fairly likely that the mortuary will remove the body, the person's estate/relatives will likely get the bill as part of the final arrangements. You might want to quit playing Russian Roulette as a parlor game, however, just on general principles.
Ruben, this thread has been going on all day. You better make the call pretty soon or you will have some 'splainin to do to the police when they arrive.
It is almost dark here. Would you please change the subject to something less creepy . . . like how many seniors will die horrible deaths when Obama care is enacted.
Nor will you be billed for the removal of anybody else's body other than your spouse. In such a case, your mortuary of choice will likely pick up your dear wife's still beautiful corpse and include any charges in the funeral arrangements.
In the nearly impossible event that you have a guest die in your house, you will not be billed (unless your laws are VERY different from ours) for calling the PD or 911. Since it is fairly likely that the mortuary will remove the body, the person's estate/relatives will likely get the bill as part of the final arrangements. You might want to quit playing Russian Roulette as a parlor game, however, just on general principles.
Ruben, this thread has been going on all day. You better make the call pretty soon or you will have some 'splainin to do to the police when they arrive.
It is almost dark here. Would you please change the subject to something less creepy . . . like how many seniors will die horrible deaths when Obama care is enacted.
Brian Withnell
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I'd have a question about donation ... if you die, and someone gets your kidney, then at the resurrection, who gets to keep it? You or the person to whom you donated it?
If they are dead because they were breaking into your house and you were defending your home, then call the police, your lawyer, then your home owner's insurance ... the blood stains are tough to clean, and the police won't do anything for it. (BTW, when the police arrive, say nothing but that you are so upset that you need to be seen by a doctor ... don't answer any questions ... wait for your lawyer. Do not allow them to pressure you into answering for any reason, you want your lawyer there.)
Galatians220
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Strange you should bring up a death in a hotel. Just a week ago Tuesday, my husband's aunt died in a hotel in Biloxi, MS while on a gambling trip there. Her husband called the desk clerk, who called the police and the necessary arrangements for transport up here for a funeral and burial were made.
In Biloxi, the hotel insisted upon giving our uncle a limousine ride to the airport, and free food there until he left for same... I didn't think to ask him which hotel it was that performed this noble deed. They've probably done it before...
In Michigan, one indicates on one's driver's license whether one wants organ donations, etc. to occur. That wouldn't be my first idea as to where to look for that information, but that's Michigan (like, "forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown..." And forget this forgettable movie reference.
). Anyway, it's been my experience in being a "first arranger" for funerals in my family that the funeral director asks that question. Seems a little stupid to put it in one's will, considering it's usually a moot point by the time anyone gets around to reading the will.Margaret
That's interesting, Margaret. There is a Fawlty Towers episode where a guest dies - John Cleese said he got the idea because he asked an hotelier friend of his what was a big problem in posh hotels, and the man replied that people would go there to die in a genteel way - but keeping what had happened from the other guests was a big concern.
I have a card in my wallet which my coworkers know to pull out and call if I should die at work; I am a little worried that having done that, they won't think to inform Heidi.
I have a card in my wallet which my coworkers know to pull out and call if I should die at work; I am a little worried that having done that, they won't think to inform Heidi.
I went over to Ruben's and Heidi's tonight for a few hours. Heidi made me a little pie. I love pie. It was most wonderful. She is an awesome cook. She has made me dinner before and I can't imagine the life of bliss a man who has such a wonderful wife.
BTW, I left with my life intact. LOL
Diamonds in my eyes. Wow. LOL
NP yet. Lots of new stars though.. LOL
NP yet. Lots of new stars though.. LOL
Strange, I was just talking about this topic a few days ago with a locally-born man here who now lives in the US, thus experiencing life in the East here and life in the West.
One illustration he used to describe how individualistic and enclosed we are in the US was to point out how old people can die in their homes and no one is around to know it for weeks, until the rot smells up the place and the police are called.
He said, "That could NEVER happen here...how can Americans live so individualistically? Don't they care about other people..especially their parents and grandparents?"
OUCH.
One illustration he used to describe how individualistic and enclosed we are in the US was to point out how old people can die in their homes and no one is around to know it for weeks, until the rot smells up the place and the police are called.
He said, "That could NEVER happen here...how can Americans live so individualistically? Don't they care about other people..especially their parents and grandparents?"
OUCH.
That's not as bad as the man who was a proofreader for a major newspaper, I think it was the New York Times, who died at his desk and no one noticed for several days - he was always there earlier and left later than everyone else, so they thought nothing of it. Of course, as I remarked at the time, it's a little alarming that no one noticed he wasn't producing any work.
MEMO: From Management.
RE: Employees dying on the job.
cc.
\Payroll
\Graves Registration
\Obituaries
RE: Employees dying on the job.
1. It has come to the attention of management that employees dying on the job are failing to fall down.
2. It thus becomes impossible to tell death from the actual movement of the staff.
3. Any employee found dead in an upright position will immediately be removed from the payroll.
2. It thus becomes impossible to tell death from the actual movement of the staff.
3. Any employee found dead in an upright position will immediately be removed from the payroll.
cc.
\Payroll
\Graves Registration
\Obituaries
Brian Withnell
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If you are ever in a situation in which you have to use deadly force, the probability is that you have done so because your own life (or someone you love) has been threatened. The adrenaline dump that accompanies such things is enough to make you jittery, and certainly is enough to make it impossible to respond intelligently to questions of the incident. The police want to find someone to charge with a crime, you want to make sure they don't have anyone to charge (and you in particular). The best solution is to say nothing but that you need to see a doctor.
In my occupation I have unfortunately been on numerous DOA's (dead on arrivals). Basically upon finding and confirming (everyone should know CPR right) the person is dead call 911. We get there along with paramedics confirm it is a DOA make sure you are separated from pt and call for police and coroner. Police will interview you to determine if they will do anything further. The main thing is to once you have found the person deceased do not disturb the body. I once had a occupied house fire with a 3 yr old victim where it turned out the grand mother slept with the child and rolled over and suffocated the child in their sleep woke up, freaked out, set the house on fire to cover her mistake. Would she have got in trouble for mistakenly killing the child in her sleep? maybe but she did get in trouble for starting the fire.
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