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How do you identify a dead body? What should you do to prepare for the worst?
Answers
1 Evacuate when told to do so.
2 If you prefer to stay to guard your property from looters, or are too frail to travel, the Mayor, Rios, of a town in Texas, tells people to write their name and National Insurance number on their arm.
Why the National Insurance number? I imagine it's the same as the National ID number (NRIC) in Singapore. It ensures that if you have more than one person of the same name you can be sure which is which. (For example, there are 13 people with my name, Angela Lansbury, on LinkedIn alone. It would take hours to try to identify a dead body from a name if they were not found in the house where they lived.
Light Note 1 on Disembodied Arms
On a lighter note, somebody suggested that you should write your name on the torso instead, in case the body and arms were separated. Somebody else said you still need the name on the arm, in case somebody discovered an odd arm by itself.
Having the name on your arm might save a member of the family from the grim task of identifying the individual dead body, or looking at dozens. Or hundreds.
At least you could photograph the name and number before burial.
Light Note 2 - Identity change
A chance to go missing. Write your name on somebody else's dead body.
Hm. Why is the body of John Brown marked as Joan Brown?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4825052/Texans-stayed-told-write-SSN-arm.html#reader-comments
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and Photographer, author and speaker. Please share your favourite posts.
How do you identify a dead body? What should you do to prepare for the worst?
Answers
1 Evacuate when told to do so.
2 If you prefer to stay to guard your property from looters, or are too frail to travel, the Mayor, Rios, of a town in Texas, tells people to write their name and National Insurance number on their arm.
Why the National Insurance number? I imagine it's the same as the National ID number (NRIC) in Singapore. It ensures that if you have more than one person of the same name you can be sure which is which. (For example, there are 13 people with my name, Angela Lansbury, on LinkedIn alone. It would take hours to try to identify a dead body from a name if they were not found in the house where they lived.
Light Note 1 on Disembodied Arms
On a lighter note, somebody suggested that you should write your name on the torso instead, in case the body and arms were separated. Somebody else said you still need the name on the arm, in case somebody discovered an odd arm by itself.
Having the name on your arm might save a member of the family from the grim task of identifying the individual dead body, or looking at dozens. Or hundreds.
At least you could photograph the name and number before burial.
Light Note 2 - Identity change
A chance to go missing. Write your name on somebody else's dead body.
Hm. Why is the body of John Brown marked as Joan Brown?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4825052/Texans-stayed-told-write-SSN-arm.html#reader-comments
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and Photographer, author and speaker. Please share your favourite posts.
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