Useful info—and yes, I feel fine
I was thinking that I really have no idea what steps to take when a family member dies at home. (I assume that hospitals know exactly what to do.) I’m of a certain age, though of course we are told that death can happen at any time, and I got to wondering…
So nowadays one simply Googles “death checklist” and lo! one finds quite a few useful guides for a stressful time. In looking at them, it’s clear that this is well-trodden territory—people have been doing this for thousands of years and even longer—and in fact quite a few steps are involved: lots of different entities to notify.
Take a look: here’s one, here’s another, and here’s a third. I’m hoping that you wouldn’t have need to look at one of these anytime soon (save for “fire drills” of a sort), but it’s nice to know that this sort of guidance is available.
Well, useful but too sad subject ((((((((((((((
KanzlerBismarck
18 October 2011 at 12:05 pm
Google really does confer knowledge about anything–be it palatable, unsavory, or sad but necessary.
Did you lose a loved one? If so, my condolences.
scottbartlett
18 October 2011 at 5:34 pm
No, I just got to wondering about it — some line of thought, probably from a movie, about finding a body, and I got to thinking, “I don’t have the first clue what to do? Call 911? But it’s not exactly an emergency. Call the cops? ‘I have a dead person here. Wanna see?’ And what do you do with the body?” So I thought that this was not exactly untrodden territory, so there would have to be a death checklist, and by golly, there are—and pretty good ones, too. Lots of things that would never occur to me.
LeisureGuy
18 October 2011 at 8:05 pm
Oh well that’s a relief! I don’t envy anyone who finds themselves in that situation.
scottbartlett
19 October 2011 at 3:38 pm