Should there be a mourning room in the hospital?

In a survey conducted by Heart Care Foundation of India of 400 people from all walks of life, 90% of the people wanted that wishes of the dying person and dead body should be respected in the hospital setting. They said that doctors should be more compassionate and emphatic at the time of declaring a patient dead. 

 

Unless people are expecting a death, death usually comes as a shock to the family members. It is expected that the relations may be in agony, pain and even anger. Every hospital should have a mourning room where relations should be made to sit, counseled and death declared. 

 

After the death is declared, the treating doctors, nurses and hospital staff must sit with the patient’s relations, counsel them, tell them about the sequence of what happened before death and also counsel them about how to handle dead body. People also want to know the cause of death so that similar thing may not happen to another person in the family.

They also want to know if the body is infectious or not and what rituals should not be done if the body is infectious.  They also like to know about how to preserve the dead body till cremation.

They also may like to know whether a postmortem is required to know exact cause of death, which can help future family members of the family.