How do dead people exit hospitals?

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I’ve never seen a dead person be wheeled out of a hospital in my life. How do they sneak them out without the carnival of spectators?

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I work in the ER and one of the if my patient dies, one of my rolls is to bagging and tagging the body before bringing them down to the morgue.

By bagging and tagging, I mean prepping the body, getting them into a body bag, collecting/documenting personal belongings and securing patient identification tags on the patients tie, the zipper of the bag (acting as a tamper-seal) and their belongings.

Our morgue is essentially a giant walk in cooler, divided into bays and each bay has a locker for personal belongings. The deceased and their belongings are kept here until they are picked up by either the medical examiner or whatever means the family arranges.

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