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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm well aware. I am EMT trained.

Like, I know society is what it is right now and the immediate justifications but it still feels like a gigantic social failing of our social structures.

I think my criticism lies in the fact that funerary services are a private industry separate from healthcare services such as ambulance, rather than with the ambulance services as I previously misstated.

Like it necessitates what you described where the incentive is to just abandon the corpse instead of taking it back to a morgue at the hospital and taken care of from there but, no, the corpse is to be abandoned until some other industry is able to be arranged.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Can you guys pronounce dead? In Canada they will do CPR until they get to the hospital and ER physician will pronounce death.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I only managed to become EMT-Basic. I believe you have to be an EMT-Paramedic to be able to pronounce dead on scene but don't quote me. Never got to do much with the training as I developed neuropathy and began to have issues with my hands, so I didn't pursue it for a career.

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