[smcin]

It's worse than that, it's like burying a double or even triple lede:

- it's not just that the hospital told her family totally the wrong thing for a day or a year...

- or even negligently cremated or buried her in a pauper's grave...

- but they also mishandled the corpse, which IIUC is a misdemeanor (corpse desecration, which is a felony, might not apply), by shipping her decomposing body to an off-site warehouse morgue.

- and failing to timely issue a death certificate or do an autopsy prevents determining whether there had been medical malpractice associated with her death.

[ghostly_s]

and they didn't even know she was dead - the death certificate was not completed until her body had been rotting in their facility for a year.