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Rural Communities find alternative to waiting for coroner

Written by DeadGirl
Monday, 01 August 2005
Corpse removal service a must: Municipalities MD of Greenview, Valleyview say they're tired of long waits By NEAL TALBOT Herald-Tribune staff Two small northern Alberta municipalities are starting a dead body removal service after receiving complaints local corpses are not being removed in a timely manner. Facing an eight-hour wait to have some deceased residents removed by a medical examiner, the Municipal District of Greenview and Town of Valleyview have created an unusual volunteer-driven program to prevent body removal delays. Greenview Reeve Tony Yelenik admits the first-of-its-kind program appears strange at first, but is necessary due to the municipalities' distances from a coroners office or funeral home. "Our program may sound kind of unique, but our situation is unique, with us occasionally facing long delays before bodies are removed," says Yelenik. "This is something rural municipalities face when not located in an area that has a coroner or other removal services close by." Yelenik says body removal is the responsibility of the provincial medical examiner under the Fatalities Inquiries Act, but is often delegated to local funeral home or ambulance staff once the body has been cleared to be moved by police. Having the nearest coroner 80 kilometres away in Grande Prairie, the closest funeral home 50 km away in High Prairie and with local ambulances not allowed to pick up corpses, that can create unacceptable wait times, says Yelenik. "Municipalities have no legal obligation to perform this service, but we didn't want to leave people's loved ones for hours if the coroner and funeral home are busy," he said. To help reduce wait times, a Greenview-owned Chevrolet Suburban has been specially outfitted to transport dead bodies and a six-person volunteer pickup service has been created. "We had a handful of cases over the last couple years where bodies were left for an unacceptable length of time and the service should ensure that doesn't happen again," said Valleyview town manager Garry Peterson "It can be traumatizing enough to lose a loved one and having their dead body sit around for hours doesn't help matters." In one case, a man's body was left for eight hours in the backyard of his home in the winter cold and in full view of passersby - many of whom knew the deceased - before it was removed. The two municipalities will pay for the storage and upkeep on the vehicle and pay two volunteers $200 each for each trip they make. Service organizers are expecting the removal service, manned by volunteers made up of police officers, ambulance staff and medical workers, will be used less than five times per year. The removal service will transport bodies to the Valleyview Health Centre or Queen Elizabeth II Hospital morgues. "Body removal may seem like a strange service to provide, but that's part of living in a rural area," adds Greenview protective services co-ordinator Rick Reiger, who will run the program. "It's just one of those things no one wants to handle, but someone's got to do it." The M.D. of Greenview covers more than 32,000 square km including the towns of Fox Creek, Grande Cache and Valleyview, and is home to a population of 5,500.

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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