ICUs are always tough, anon has had them suggest they need the patients bed "for someone who might have a chance to get better."
If you step out for coffee you may return to find your friend, wife, husband/gay lover has died.
It's as if they need your table in an NYC restaurant. ICU staff start whipping stuff out of the room; if the patient is rich, "grief counsellors" batten onto the bereaved like ticks.
If you've seen this yourself, or if you have reliable evidence you may wish to die at home in the event you've been seriously injured or ill
In that case be sure to sign up for palliative care, otherwise, in the event of unattended death, they'll cut you up, bill your estate 18 K or if you're indigent, attempt to bill your friends or family, refusing to release your body until they're paid off.
The law varies from state to state but the general policy is the same. Inquest is mandatory in unattended death , autopsy required.
CA Example:
The California Code permits a physician to certify the cause of death of a person in his or her care even if the death occurs outside of the physician’s presence. This type of certification presumes that the physician has seen the individual within a period of 20 days before the death. This type of scenario is one in which a person happens to die alone but the death is promptly discovered.
Oftentimes, obtaining the certification of an absent physician proves unnecessary because when the death is discovered, emergency medical personnel are dispatched to the scene and the individual is taken to a hospital, where an official pronouncement of death can occur and a death certificate issue. These types of situations typically involve a person who has died from an illness, disease, or condition for which he or she previously was diagnosed by a physician.
Another scenario involves an individual in hospice care, typically home hospice care. Provided that an individual dies in home hospice care without a physician present has been seen by a physician or registered nurse within 20 days prior to death, the involvement of the coroner typically is unnecessary. This scenario also presumes that the person died from a previously diagnosed illness, disease, or condition.
In a scenario involving home hospice care, California law permits an attending physician to come to the home after a patient has passed, official pronounce death and then issue a death certificate. The law permits the bot body of the deceased to be transported directly to a funeral home by funeral home staff.
https://ecobear.co/knowledge-center/unattended-death-laws-california/
hen it comes to burial, the morticians monopoly mandates a licensed undertaker or cremation facility. No "back yard" burials are permitted.
If the corners left anything of value in the remains, gold teeth for example, are snagged by the undertaker. Good biopart where they exist are usually sold by the coroners.
https://www.summitdaily.com/news/crime/horrifying-funeral-home-allegations-prompt-bill-that-would-give-colorado-regulators-more-power-to-inspect/https://www.cpr.org/2022/02/09/montrose-funeral-homes-crematories-inspection-legislation/