What happens when someone dies but not at home

What happens when someone dies of natural causes but not at home

So when someone dies not at home, who do we need to notify? So death not at home really means going to hospital or… Rest home? Yep, or hospice, any of those uses. And so usually the person in the institution, the organiser, the caregiver, the nurse, they’ll be the one that will ring the doctor. So we don’t usually have to do that as family.

But sometimes the first person you would ring because it’s expected is the funeral director. And they might ask you, has the doctor been notified yet? Sometimes they haven’t. So they’ll give you the cues, they’ll give you the questions to ask.

And they’ll talk about, what time would you like us to come? And of course your family is that really important people to notify, making sure they’ve got an option to be there. Some people think, no, no, we don’t want to tell him, we’ll tell him after. But they really should have that chance to be there if they can.

So what happens if it’s like three o’clock in the morning? Yeah, ring the funeral director. That’s what we will talk you through it. The doctor probably can’t come at that time of the night, but that’s fine.

We can coordinate coming in the morning when it suits family and suits the rest home or the whole institution.