Morgue Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Morgue or mortuary cold chamber:The morturay cold chamber is used to keep the deacesed the time needed for the recognition and before the burials.
There is two types of mortuary cold chambers:
Positive temperature: +2/+4°C which is the most usual for keeping the bodies a few days or a few week but the decomposition of the corpse is still running.
Negative temperature: -15°C/-25°C which is usual for the forensic institutes specially for the bodies which have not been yet identified. In that case , the body is completly frozen and the decomposition totally stopped.
In many countries, the family have to make the burial within 72 hours but in others countries (Africa) it is usual that the burial takes place some weeks or some months after the death. That is the reason why some corpses can stay one or two years at the hospital of in funeral home. When the family has enough money to organise the burial ceremony, they take the corpse from the cold chamber.
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A morgue is a building or room (as in a hospital) used for the storage of human remains.
Probably because it is in a sense where the "dead bodies" are kept, the term morgue is also used to refer to the room where newspapers and magazines keep back issues and other historical references.
The word is predominately American English. It originally referred to a building in Paris, France, the Morgue, where bodies were kept until identified.
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