Missouri coroner has allowed families to exclude COVID from death certificates

[IcyPeas]

A Missouri county coroner has allowed families to excludes COVID from death certificates, affecting pandemic fatality reporting

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[bottomofthehill]

1. Nice, when I die I want to be in Missouri so I can choose my cause of death

Then I can join a class action law suit.

[JohnSJ]

2. Is that even legal?

[chia]

3. HOW is that even possible.

[Blue_true]

8. An ideological coroner.

In many places, they don’t need medical degrees, or even rudimentary knowledge of Medicine.

[LiberatedUSA]

4. Well if that's the case, anyone can be a coroner.

I’ll sign up to be one too. Let me get my Dungeons & Dragons-style random list of causes of death and my trusty d20, and we’ll be all set.

[Blue_true]

7. Believe it or not, in many small counties, ANYONE can be a coroner. nt

[live love laugh]

13. Which might be the case here. nt

[Blue_true]

5. Well. They can exclude it on the paperwork, but COVID knows what happened. nt

[Diamond_Dog]

6. How is this legal?

[RKP5637]

9. FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[NickB79]

10. Sweet, we can choose our cause of death now?

I want my death certificate to say I died while in bed with the entire crew from Atlanta's best strip club!

[NewDayOranges]

11. My brother Frank died of Covid on January 7th...

In Kansas City but Covid was not listed as the cause of death.

My SIL and I attended a memorial service that his hospital held for him and other Covid victims in April. At this service my SIL had the chance to ask family members of other Covid victims and she found that NONE of the other victims death certificates listed Covid as cause of death either...

[UpInArms]

12. In Missouri, coroners are elected

They are the only county official with power above the sheriff

[xmas74]

18. And in smaller counties they are usually the local mortician.

They usually use their funeral home as a morgue until the family makes other plans.

Yep, it's a huge scam. My county was informed if the current mortician ever lost we would lose any use of those facilities.

[rickford66]

14. Practice for 2022 & 2024

[clutterbox1830]

15. It explains why they have report no COVID deaths in like 3 weeks.

[malaise]

16. He should be fired immediately

This is madness

[MineralMan]

17. Those families are cutting themselves off from a FEMA Burial Benefit

of up to $9000. It is available to families who have lost someone to COVID-19, but requires that COVID-19 be listed as a cause of death on the death certificate.

Now, THAT'S owning the libs, for sure.

[ScratchCat]

20. What you point out there

is the exact reason why 90% of people I know say the Covid-19 death totals are a hoax. I actually thought the death benefit was an urban legend dreamed up by RW talk radio, but apparently not. OMG, there's a $9,000 reason to lie? My dad passed away last September and my mom kept saying over and over "I'm going to be furious if they list Covid-19 on the death certificate". I kept asking her why they would do that, and apparently, the funeral home or hospital can collect on behalf of the deceased she says.

[MineralMan]

21. Interestingly, when my parents died at age 96 on the same day,

the funeral home knew nothing about that benefit. In fact, they wouldn't even pick up my parents' bodies at the hospital and at home until I had paid them for the services to be rendered. So, I maxed out my credit cards, and got my sister's husband to cover half of the costs.

I don't think that FEMA benefit existed at the time. I learned of it later, and applied for it an got reimbursed later. I suppose they tell the bereaved families about the benefit these days, maybe. I can't say enough negative things about the funeral industry, I'm afraid. A predatory sort of industry, it certainly is.

My father was adamant about he and my mother not being cremated. They owned two burial plots in their small town. So, I did as he wished. Eventually, their estate paid for all of it, of course, but I had to front the money on the day they died, just to get them picked up, so there's something amiss with how this is all handled in our society, I think.

[Wounded Bear]

19. So basically, they allow falsification of official government documents?

Talk about your slippery slope.