When someone dies, if they don't do an autopsy, does the body go straight to the crematorium or coffin place

Question

or do they do other stuff to it first?

Answer 1

It depends, it will go to a funeral director because they have the facilities to store it, you can then have them do the funeral or another one of your choice, you can have the body enbalmed if you want, that means all the blood is drained out and replaced with a chemical, or you can just put it in a coffin and then hold the funeral, embalming is usually done if there is to be a viewing of the body by relatives, its not really worth doing if no-one is going to see it, if you die in hospital your body will go to their storage till a funeral director is instructed to take it away.

Answer 2

to the undertakers..dress them,etc..the wishes of the family.mary.c.

Answer 3

The family usually make arrangements with a Funeral Director to collect the body which is taken to their premises where it is kept until the funeral.

Answer 4

There is usually a post mortem but if a doctor has recently seen the deceased and knew that they were terminally ill, then they may be sent directly to the undertaker.

Answer 5

they have to have the body fluids drained and make up put on etc , then go to be buried or cremated

Answer 6

That depends first upon local law and then upon custom.  Around here you don't have to preserve a body unless you plan to show it at the funeral.  You don't even have to have a funeral.  You don't have to bury the body immediately.  Properly preserved, you don't even have to bury the body.  That's weird, but it's also legal.

Answer 7

The body would usually be taken to the undertakers.

This is dependant on the cause and place of death.

For example if someone died in hospital - the body would be taken to the hospital mortuary and thence depending on the family;s wishes an undertakers.

If someone died in an accident or suspicious circumsatnces the

body could be taken to a police mortuary for a post mortem

Prior to a cremation the body may be taken to a church for a funeral service.

Answer 8

OK, UK wise.

Whether a person dies in a hospital (the majority of people sadly) or at home they are transferred to the body store after death (depending on religious requirements) where the body can be kept cold and decay kept to the minimum. If a cremation is required a doctor needs to visit the body and inspect it for the presence of electromagnetic devices (pacemakers essentialy) and a form filled out as to this effect. The body is then collected by the funeral director and they prepare it for burial or cremation and for viewing by the family of relatives as needed. The body is kept at the funeral directors premises until the funeral.

Answer 9

yeah to the undertakers where they dress and make up them... or the family can have it at home....

Answer 10

uauallly chapel of rest or mortuary

Answer 11

it depends on what the family of the deceased want to do with the body