In some funeral homes, the morgue is in the same room, or directly adjacent to, the specially designed ovens, known as retorts, that are used in funerary cremation. When the family has enough money to organize the ceremony, the corpse is taken from the cold chamber for burial. This is why some corpses are kept as long as one or two years at a hospital or in a funeral home. In many countries, the family of the deceased must make the burial within 72 hours (three days) of death, but in some other countries it is usual that burial takes place some weeks or months after the death. In some countries, the body of the deceased is embalmed before disposal, which makes refrigeration unnecessary. This painting was the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Around the globe Īn autopsy is performed in the morgue.
At these temperatures the body is completely frozen, and decomposition is significantly reduced, but not prevented. Usually used at forensic institutes, particularly when a body has not been identified. While this is usually used for keeping bodies for up to several weeks, it does not prevent decomposition, which continues at a slower rate than at room temperature. There are two types of mortuary cold chambers:īodies are kept between 2 ☌ (36 ☏) and 4 ☌ (39 ☏). A person qualified in the evisceration and reconstruction of the deceased is called an Anatomical Pathology Technician in the UK, also called a mortician or autopsy technician in the USA. The euphemisms “Rose Cottage” and “Rainbow’s End” are sometimes used in British hospitals to enable discussion in front of patients and visitors, the latter mainly for children.Īn auxiliary person responsible for the care of the deceased is known as a mortuary assistant or diener. Morgue is predominantly used in North American English, while Mortuary is used in the U.K., although both terms are used interchangeably. First used to describe the inner wicket of a prison, where new prisoners were kept so that jailers and turnkeys could recognize them in the future, it took on its modern meaning in fifteenth-century Paris, being used to describe part of the Châtelet used for the storage and identification of unknown corpses. The meaning of "place where the deceased are kept temporarily" was first recorded in 1865, as a euphemism for the earlier English term "deadhouse". The term mortuary dates from the early 14th century, from Anglo-French mortuarie, meaning "gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner," from Medieval Latin mortuarium, noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective mortuarius "pertaining to the dead," from Latin mortuus, pp. Latin phrase " de mortuis nihil nisi bene" ("Of the dead, say nothing but good") written at the old morgue of Eura Church in Eura, Finland
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