# My roommate died at 2:00am. They hauled off his remains at 12:20pm **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368 "2022-04-24T19:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/1 "2022-04-24T19:47:31Z")
If I had known he was still over there I might not have slept so well, but at least his TV was off. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/2 "2022-04-24T19:50:32Z")
Condolences. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/3 "2022-04-24T20:22:17Z")
Yeah, I was gonna ask you about that TV. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/4 "2022-04-24T20:31:02Z")
You’d be amazed how many sports contests are on at 3am ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/5 "2022-04-24T20:38:37Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Condolences Nice of you, but I didn’t really know the guy. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/6 "2022-04-25T00:06:00Z")
I know hospitals and care centers are short-staffed, but 10 hours seems a bit crazy. When my dad died, the crematorium had a vehicle there to pick him up before 2 hours had passed. The oxygen supply company came to pick up their equipment within 30 minutes. He was on hospice notice and everyone knew but I was surprised by the efficiency. Pre-covid, of course. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/7 "2022-04-25T00:18:59Z")
I wouldn’t care if they took that long if they had packed him off to a closet or something, but they left him six.feet from me. Gross. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/8 "2022-04-25T00:38:13Z")
Maybe they were just making sure that he was really dead. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/9 "2022-04-25T00:46:40Z")
ahhh… ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/10 "2022-04-25T00:55:12Z")
> “I think I’ll go for a walk.” > “You’re not fooling anybody.” ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/11 "2022-04-25T02:11:59Z")
I feel like I’m missing something here. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/12 "2022-04-25T02:31:37Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “I think I’ll go for a walk.” > “You’re not fooling anybody.” That is very much like how it started. He would try to stand up, then he’d fall down. He got farther last night because I wasn’t awake to turn him in. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/13 "2022-04-25T02:34:08Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I feel like I’m missing something here. It’s one of my stories, so I wouldn’t be surprised. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/14 "2022-04-25T02:46:09Z")
OH! I had forgotten that you were in a hospital-type setting. When I saw the thread title, I was thinking of an **ekedolphin** -and-his-landlord-type of thing. _If he slept through it, how did he know the time of death?_ ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/15 "2022-04-25T02:46:51Z")
I was unaware of the setting, assumed apartment, was rather confused. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/16 "2022-04-25T03:01:58Z")
I’m guessing that once he’d passed, they had to contact family and find out what funeral home needed to come and retrieve his remains. That could take some time, considering it was 2 am when he actually passed. Not that it makes hanging out next to a dead body any better, but it does explain it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/17 "2022-04-25T03:38:19Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Maybe they were just making sure that he was really dead. Was **Dropzone** ’s roomie a tropical fish? I’ve definitely done the wait-a-bit-to-see-if-it’s-really-dead thing with those guys… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/18 "2022-04-25T03:38:23Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > If he slept through it, how did he know the time of death? It was noisy and when the discussion turned to the presence or absence of a DNR order, I needed to run a quick survey to make sure they weren’t talking about me. They weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/19 "2022-04-25T03:40:29Z")
Yeah, that was their explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368/20 "2022-04-25T09:19:54Z")
So did you grab him a pair of sunglasses and pull some _Weekend at Bernie’s_ antics? C’mon, you can tell us. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368.md?page=2)