Death and Covid19

I'd have thought that any of the bodily fluids could contain the virus. I've never understood why people go for  the whole embalming / cotton wool up your bum thing when they die. I've watched a body decay in our dining room - an elderly relative in an open coffin, not embalmed, and it's an interesting process. The dogs only paid attention to the coffin on day 4, so we put the lid on. I certainly wouldn't want anyone messing around with my body. 

Perhaps in these unusual times they should seal the dead up in a body bag in the hospital and they then get cremated in that same bag asap. What's the point in washing and dressing them? There's too much risk to the undertakers, and also it's weird. And as for putting make up on the corpse and doing their hair........................

[url]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-funerals/608998/[/url]-FluMom-it looks like "they still do not know that for certain". 

Dealing-in a respectfull way-with the people who died-during a pandemic is a major challange. Respecting the will of the person that died should be the basis for what is done (in my DJ opinion). 

In a worst case scenario even that basic idea may be gone-to limit the outbreak...

[url]https://www.chp.gov.hk/files/pdf/grp-guideline-hp-ic-precautions_for_handling_and_disposal_of_dead_bodies_en.pdf[/url]

[url]https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-safe-handling-of-bodies-or-persons-dying-from-COVID19.pdf[/url]

(DJ-Also referring to how long a virus may last on surfaces etc.-there should be more info I think-this is not a new situation in the way people died from virus/bacteria all the time.)

Well I never though this would happen in the U.S. but here is proof!   This is why if I go to hospital I will type up instructions of where my body is to be sent.  I have a spot already to be buried and I do not want to be in a mass grave!!!!

Part of the Article:

Under a new policy, the medical examiner's office will keep bodies in storage for just 14 days before they're buried in the city's potter's field on Hart Island. 

City officials haven't explained whether the increase in burials at Hart Island is due to pressure on mortuaries to dispose of bodies more quickly. 

Prisoners from Rikers Island are usually brought in to dig graves on Hart Island but the Department of Corrections has since hired contracted laborers to carry out the work due to the outbreak. 

'For social distancing and safety reasons, city-sentenced people in custody are not assisting in burials for the duration of the pandemic,' DOC Press Secretary Jason Kersten told DailyMail.com. 'Contracted laborers are performing this important work under DOC supervision. 

'Burial operations at the city cemetery remain uninterrupted and they continue to be supervised by DOC, which has been performing this solemn duty on Hart Island for over 150 years and will continue to do so until the jurisdiction of Hart Island moves to Parks in 2021.' 

For burial on the island, the dead are wrapped in body bags and placed inside pine caskets. The deceased's name is scrawled in large letters on each casket, which helps if any body needs to be exhumed later. The caskets are buried in long narrow trenches excavated by digging machines. 

I'd like a link to that article too.  Because authorities have explained why bodies are being buried on Hart Island.  They did so last week.  

Another article:

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/04/10/photos-nyc-increases-burials-in-public-cemetery-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR1l0v51rvtE63lvOEekFL6UsJ9ZbwL2PI0-Eoec6BBsB163bEXUESF5BpI