Nobody ever prays for the death of a beloved family member or of any relative for that matter. But the saying “as certain as death and taxes” is not just a saying. Death is inevitable. If you look at your life from a certain perspective, you find out that your every action is mostly directed towards making sure that when you DIE, you will leave a legacy behind. For some, death is a welcomed enemy while for others, it is an unexpected visitor. Whatever the case, when a beloved family member passes away at home, there might be a need to employ professional death cleanup services.
When is a professional death cleanup service needed?
Traumatic Death
What qualifies as a traumatic death? This can be defined as the death of someone that normally results in emotional or psychological problems for those that were close to the deceased (i.e. close friends and family). An important feature of such death is that it usually occurs in gruesome ways. Examples of such deaths include death resulting from a ghastly accident, suicide or a homicide.
When such death occurs, family members should desist from cleaning up the death scene themselves. The wisest course of action on their part would be to employ professional death cleanup services. This stands to benefit them in several ways, but ultimately, the greatest benefit they derive is in the form of emotional and psychological safety.
It is hard enough to have to lose a loved one in a gruesome way, and trying to clean up their remains might just be too much for you to handle emotionally and psychologically.
Unattended Death
Sometimes, it so happens that a beloved family member’s passing went unnoticed for a long period of time due to reasons that were beyond anyone’s control. When such death is finally discovered, the body would definitely be in a stage of decomposition. This is not the time to start a cleanup yourself just because you want to rid the property of the invading rodents and a disgusting smell is much likely to be present on the scene.
What you should do is reach out to a law enforcement agency first and then make an arrangement with a highly qualified cleanup company to render you top notch death cleanup services. The cleanup company has to be top notch because cleaning up unattended deaths is quite different from cleaning up regular death.
Why can’t you do the cleanup yourself? Consider these:
- Cleaning an unattended death scene where the body has started to decompose means that apart from making sure that you do not come in unsafe contact with blood-borne pathogens, you must also save yourself from the insects, rodents and millions of other microorganisms that would have turned the decomposing body to their sources of daily bread.
- You must also be ready to put up with the gut-wrenching smell and horrendous sight that will meet your eyes on arrival. Admitted you might have experienced this before on discovery, but it’s quite a different story when you have to stay in there for a long stretch of time trying to clean up.
- There is also the issue of having the right tools and equipment for the job, which of course you do not have.
So don’t pile on your troubles, when you fall victim of situations such as these, do the right. Call the professionals and let them help you.
