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Tabla de carrocería/ entierro de féretro
"A leakproof container" is often stated in the law as being required to transport a body.
Leakproof does not mean a box or bag that can be turned into a swimming pool.
Leakproof means you won't get bodily fluids trailing you wherever you bring the body.
The goal is to make transport through public spaces leak-free & smell-free
(the sooner in the first 24 hrs that cooling the body begins the less likely there will be a smell).
Bring, to make initial transport of a body from a care facility easier:
-A rigid board with handles (or a casket). Ask to use their stretcher or gurney if you don’t want to carry the board or casket through their facility, or if you don’t have enough people to carry the loaded board or casket.
-Thick cardboard tube: Two people is enough to slide a board or casket into a vehicle if you have one.
-Two sheets from home (one under the body with a disposable diaper or chux pad) and one to cover the body: 3 min video demonstrating using a sheet to lift a body as a team: How to Carry a Body. A sheet is nice because if seepage begins it can be identified and bound immediately whereas a plastic body bag can spread leaking fluids all over the body, as well as build up heat and smells.
-A plastic sheeting in case there is reason to anticipate some seepage.
Cementerio de conservación Larkspur
Taylor Hollow, Nashville, Tennessee
Encuentre una lámina de madera contrachapada de 2 pies de ancho (1/2" de espesor para personas livianas, 3/4" de espesor para personas pesadas) de madera contrachapada CDX (debe lijarse) o madera contrachapada ACX (no es necesario lijar).
Una lámina de 4 pies de ancho de una tienda de mejoras para el hogar costará alrededor de $60. Pueden cortarlo por la mitad si no tienes una sierra de mesa.
Dibuje los asideros aproximadamente a 1 1/2" del borde. Taladre un agujero en la línea de cada uno (para que pueda introducir la sierra de sable en el orificio). Corte los óvalos de asideros.
Consigue una sábana o manta tamaño king para envolver la tabla y el cuerpo. En la foto de arriba, el cuerpo y la tabla están envueltos por separado. Pero si no desea que la forma del cuerpo sea visible, coloque la tabla sobre la sábana o la manta y luego el cuerpo encima de la tabla y luego envuélvala.
Colocar el féretro envuelto en un juego de caballetes puede facilitar el envolver tiras de láminas en 5 puntos a lo largo del cuerpo (cabeza, pecho, cintura, piernas y pies).
Aquí hay una guía para levantar, transportar y bajar un ataúd o una tabla para cadáveres para el entierro. Obtenga una cuerda o correas de aproximadamente 1/2 " para bajar el féretro a la tumba.
Para una tumba de 6 pies de profundidad, necesita aproximadamente tres tramos de correa o cuerda de 20 pies (o seis tramos de 10 pies, que se dejan en la tumba porque están atados a las manijas). Manilla Rope es biodegradable si debe dejarse en el suelo.
Traiga dos o tres tablas pesadas para atravesar la tumba para que pueda colocar el féretro sobre la tumba.
Cementerio de conservación Heartwood Preserve, Trinity, FL
Cementerio de conservación Prairie Creek, Gainesville, FL
Foto cortesía de Melissa Hill
https://www.thenaturalfuneral.com/shrouds/
This is a company in Colorado that provides products like shrouds with heavy duty handles for use in lowering the deceased. AND they offer body composting (biological facilitated decomposition), alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation). and much more.
Premier Funeral in Utah mentions that they sell a Cremation Board for $75.
FCA of Utah now offers to loan out a 2' X 6' Body Board with black rope handles (from Cedar Hills, Utah) for a donation of any kind.
7 Ponds interview with an expert in Texas:
If a family wants to take their loved one’s body from a hospital or care home, what do they need to know?
Most hospitals, nursing homes and other systems have a policy that when their customer dies, the family has to call a funeral home to pick up the body. When a family refuses, there’s immediate push-back.
That policy is actually against the law. First, they’re forcing the family into a contract with a funeral home. So it’s a contract under duress, which is illegal anywhere in this country. And then the second issue is that it’s the family’s responsibility to dispose of the body how they see fit, so the corporate policy goes against that. Lawyers understand when it’s stated to them that way, and will tell the hospital, “Let them have the body,” because they don’t want any trouble. When I’ve coached people, we’ve never lost that fight.
In Texas — I don’t know about other states — it’s illegal to hold a dead body hostage for any reason. So if a funeral home has the body and the family goes down there and they don’t have any money to pay for anything, the funeral home can’t say, “We’re just going to keep old dead Fred here until you come up with the money and it’s going to cost you a hundred dollars a day for refrigeration.” That’s holding a body hostage.
If the family’s going to pick up the body, how many people should they bring? Do they need any special equipment?
It’s not the hospital’s job to have a body board or anything like that, because they’re accustomed to the funeral home coming in with the equipment. The body will come out on a gurney in a slip sheet. I don’t know how many dead bodies you’ve handled, but they’re pretty difficult. So the family just needs a body board — they could get a body bag, which is still not rigid, but a lot of them have handles. You just need something to slip under there and have some handles on it, pick it up and put it in the minivan. Plywood’s really expensive nowadays, but maybe an ironing board or whatever works. And four people for 100 pounds would be about right.
What kind of vehicle should someone use — can they just rent a van?
It’s just hauling freight. You just measure whatever container you’ve got and measure the van or pickup to see if it’ll fit. With most any minivan, they’ll pull out the seats — the middle and the last row. That’s how most bodies are transported by funeral homes. And because the box lays low on the floor, you can’t see it through the windows. A Chevrolet Tahoe will fit if you just fold down both rows of seats — that’s what we did with my dad. Pickup trucks are easy to load, typically long enough, but the body’s out in the sunshine and the rain. But a good, heavy tarp, and it’s all right.