What do they do with the body if someone dies and they can't be buried for a week or two?
Rick has a huge family. There are funerals about twice a year.
Rick’s aunt died last week. She was his dad’s sister. His dad is 94. She was about that old too.
Every funeral, with the exception of one last year, is an open casket. Shudder.
Rick had a nephew who was only 42 and he died unexpectedly of a heart attack while running last year. It was a shock, let me tell you. The family was somewhat scandalized that he was cremated, so I expect there to be an open casket for his aunt. Shudder.
Well her son has been dying too. They decided to wait until he passed as well, before having his mother’s funeral.
It’s been a week and a half. He just died yesterday. Looks like his mother’s funeral will be on Tuesday. I don’t know if they’re having a funeral for them both at the same time.
So, what did they do with Rick’s aunt’s body all of this time?
I’d been to about 2 funerals in my whole life before I met Rick. All of this just blows my mind. Both my parents died after I met Rick, and they were cremated.
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Keep her on the shelf in the fridge.
She’s been embalmed, so there is no need to do anything except keep the body cool.
There are a lot of places where people can’t be buried in the winter because the ground is frozen. They just store the bodies in the basement or in a back room until the ground thaws in the spring.
Oh. I would hate to work in a morgue.
Refrigeration.
Imagine what it was like back in the good ol’ days when a loved one died in the middle of summer. Burial had to take place at once! Or if the ground was frozen you’d stick the corpse in a snow bank until spring.
Down in Nevada, in a very remote place, there is a grave of a 8 year old girl. She may have died in about 1910. Nobody knows exactly where she’s buried, but I think I know. Everybody else may think she’s buried up in the canyon but the ground there is full of rocks and a solid rock base. But seriously! She’s buried down on the sediment flats next to the road leading back to town where the digging would be easy! I think the grave could be found if a person walked along the road, searching the sagebrush for a marker of some kind or arrangement of rocks.
Rick and I were just wandering around in the country, about 5 miles west of town a few years back, when he caught site of this. He slammed on the brakes and we checked it out. It was right on the edge of this field, about 15 feet off the road. It was for a little girl who was 3. She died in 1902. There was her tombstone, out there all alone. You could tell that the farmers had made a sweep around it for the last 113 years.
It had her name and I was able to google info about her. Lots of myths out there! I don’t think I found anything factual, except her family was from this town.
With arrangements a funeral home would let you keep it in their cold storage.(with a cost)
A hospital might let you keep it in their morgue.
I am pretty sure you couldn’t keep it at home in say a freezer, but then again you might if you had the proper paper work.
Once it leave the morgue (and some never go to a morgue) then it stays at the funeral parlor where it’s embalmed as soon as it arrives. It’s chilled in storage until the actual funeral.
Done with that funeral. I made my escape out a side door so I wouldn’t have to join the procession beside the bodies.
She Who Wears the Ears of the Hare would instantly cremate it with Her YARNFIRE!
I’m going to be asking a lot of funeral questions today.
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