"Mortuary" redirects here. For the type of business that provides interment and funeral services, see Funeral home. For other uses, see Mortuary (disambiguation).
A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal. In modern times, corpses have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition.[1]
^Morgan, Oliver (2006). Management of Dead Bodies after Disasters: A Field Manual for First Responders. Pan American Health Organization. p. 49. ISBN92-75-12630-5.