Handling of the Dead in Emergency Situations

A general guide of necessary and respectful management of those that have died in a disaster of significant size.
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Handling of the Dead in Emergency Situations

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Handling Death at Home

For a GREAT post on this topic for events where mortuaries are not available, this is a highly recommended read:

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Handling Dead Bodies Post SHTF
http://www.shtfmovement.com/post109302.html#p109302

Handling of the Dead in Emergency Situations.

This is an unpleasant topic, but in most emergency situations it is one you need to deal with. If the emergency is bad enough, it may be days or weeks before any emergency response personnel are available to come take the bodies away and you need to think now about how you are going to deal with it.

As a body decomposes there are many things you have to worry about if they are not handled in a manner which is sanitary, which reduces the effects of the decomposition, and all that comes with it.

There are two main forms of decomposition ... --- CONTINUED at LINK, above ---
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Dealing With Dead Bodies When the SHTF
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/selco-dead-bodies/

There is a saying that death is so close to every and each one of us in every moment, so close that actually, it breathes down back of our neck, and I kinda believe that. Still, we are so unaware of its face, and we are so reluctant to see it, both in philosophical and physical term too. It is in human nature to ignore it, to act almost like it does not exist.

When the SHTF, that attitude can bring you some problems simply because death probably will happen more often around you. You need to prep for it – and for the dead bodies that come with it – both mentally and physically. ---CONTINUED---
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