A grocery store in my area kept the store open after a customer died - ok or not?

[msc545]

After a customer died in the bakery aisle of a grocery store in my area, the store kept the store open but covered the customer's body with a tarp. It blocked off the surrounding area with shopping carts and waited for the coroner to arrive. This is Los Angeles, so it took about six hours for the coroner to arrive and to examine and remove the body. I think the store did the only thing they could have done, legally or morally. They certainly were not expected to remove the body or do anything else to it. I don't think that closing the store would have made the dead person feel any better, but some people seem to think the store should have been closed "out of respect". People shop at this centrally located store for their families, for food and other necessities. What do you think?

[purplepoppy]

Surely the local hospital could have sent an ambulance to pick up the body. And where were the police? Someone dropping dead in public might involve foul play, would it really kill them to take the body away? I don't think the store did anything wrong, they were let down by by the authorities

[msc545]

The law here is that the coroner has to be the person that first handles the body to make sure that there was no no violence involved or other things of that sort. The store was simply following the law.

[purplepoppy]

Thought it would be something like that. Most places will have a policy in place for stuff like that.

[msc545]

They have to. Otherwise, somebody could literally get murdered and the body could lay on the street and nobody would ever figure out that it was a murder. A lot of the coroner's job involves deciding whether or not any foul play was involved in a death.

[Staximus]

I think EMS should have taken the body to the nearest hospital meat locker. I’ve never heard of them just leaving a body in the middle of a store

[Staximus]

Not ok if kids can see the body

[msc545]

The body was covered with a tarp and people were kept out of the area.

[msc545]

Ems doesn't do that. The coroner does that. People seem to have a lot of trouble understanding this and why it's in effect.

[slatyb]

People die all the time. I think it was ok. The dead don't need respect.

[AngryCarl3]

Closing the store is the minimum they could have done. You lost a day's business? Sucks to be you.

[Sevenpointfive]

you should check out the story about the amazon worker that died in the warehouse. it's sick

[CaptainSmartass]

They should have called for an ambulance and the police.

Simples...

[msc545]

And those people in turn would have simply called for the coroner. The man was dead. You do not need an ambulance or the police for a dead person. What you need is a coroner.

[CaptainSmartass]

In the UK, you do. They can only use a private ambulance for people who are legally dead. The coroner is slightly different here. Basically a doctor or Home Office pathologist certifies a death, and the coroner only gets involved where a cause of death can't be confirmed.

In that case, there's a special trial, called an inquest, where a jury looks at evidence and decides what category the death falls under, and the coroner takes that and makes the final legal ruling.

[msc545]

This is not the UK.

[Iron_Man]

Not ok not good

[Kassandra1994]

I tought christians do not believe in ghost or in recarnation.

[Iron_Man]

@Kassandra1994 we don’t believe in reincarnation

[Kassandra1994]

Do you guys believe their is a pulgatory?

[Iron_Man]

@Kassandra1994 No

[Iron_Man]

That’s Catholic

[Iron_Man]

We believe when you die, if you’re saved, you go to heaven instantly

[Kassandra1994]

Oh wait so you dont think statues ofbsaints take you ti heaven? Tou dont think Marie mother of Jesus saves us?

[Iron_Man]

@Kassandra1994 she doesn’t save so she’s a good woman. she's mother of Christ, but who saves us is God the Lord Jesus Christ