# In a hospital, how are dead bodies moved from the room to the morgue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 27, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-hospital-how-are-dead-bodies-moved-from-the-room-to-the-morgue/689354 "2014-05-27T05:58:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DRW1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@DRW1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRW1)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-hospital-how-are-dead-bodies-moved-from-the-room-to-the-morgue/689354/101 "2016-05-27T17:19:37Z")
Hello everyone. I know this is an old thread, but hopefully someone here will be able to help me. I’m writing a novel and I’m stuck on the part where a patient dies in a surgery, and the body needs to be taken to the morgue. Who’s going to carry the body (elevator etc) down to the morgue? People working at the morgue, or the hospital nurse? Thank you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-hospital-how-are-dead-bodies-moved-from-the-room-to-the-morgue/689354/102 "2016-05-27T19:55:02Z")
> [@DRW1](#): > > Hello everyone. I know this is an old thread, but hopefully someone here will be able to help me. I’m writing a novel and I’m stuck on the part where a patient dies in a surgery, and the body needs to be taken to the morgue. Who’s going to carry the body (elevator etc) down to the morgue? People working at the morgue, or the hospital nurse? Thank you in advance. There is no such thing as "hospital nurse,” although perhaps you’re thinking of the nurses trained for surgery procedures, as opposed to calling Fred from maintenance. I doubt a nurse present during the surgery would be tasked, unless it’s a one-room hospital/mad-scientist lab. > [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > … > I’m back in the SD thanks to chimps mastering fire. (If this thread zombies I will have no idea what this means.) And I was right. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-hospital-how-are-dead-bodies-moved-from-the-room-to-the-morgue/689354/103 "2016-05-27T22:21:50Z")
It’s like in the movie _Marathon Man_. You just pick up the phone and call “Removals”. (in reality, transportation of the corpus delicti to the morgue is accomplished by an orderly or someone working in a transport capacity. A nurse’s time is too valuable for this task). This thread still offers one of the best combinations of username and thread title ever. \*also, unless we’re talking about the medical examiner’s office or a large teaching hospital, no one staffs the morgue. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-hospital-how-are-dead-bodies-moved-from-the-room-to-the-morgue/689354/104 "2016-05-27T23:51:25Z")
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