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Explain The Rationale For The Cause Of Death And Suicide

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When an individual dies whilst in the car of the hospital or a home they body will need to be formally identified by next of kin. The next of kin may also need to give permission for a hospital post-mortem examination if the cause of the death has to be confirmed. However, a coroner's post-mortem examination may be carried out without consent.
The body will then be laid out and kept in the hospital mortuary until you arrange for the funeral directors, family or whoever you chose to collect it. If you choose, funeral directors will take the body to their chapel of rest until the funeral takes place.
Staff in the hospital or care home will keep safe any belongings that the person who has died had in hospital until the person administering the

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