Family has been with a body in their home in Villa Estadio for more than 20 hours | La Libertad newspaper

José María Rivera died at 4:00 pm on Holy Thursday, but the funeral home has been slow to pick him up.

The history of families with corpses in their homes, due to the collapse of funeral homes, repeats itself. On this occasion, in the Villa Estadio neighborhood there was another case of a family that has been with the remains of José María Rivera for a day, a 76-year-old man who died in the living room of his house on Thursday at 4:00 p.m.

Through the Wasapea line to EL HERALDO, relatives of the deceased denounced the delay by the Recordar funeral home to carry out the corresponding procedure with the corpse for its subsequent burial.

Dayana De Ávila, José María’s granddaughter, assured that she does not know the exact causes of her grandfather’s death, but says it was due to respiratory arrest, because –as she commented- she felt her grandfather’s last breath.

“He was sitting in the house and suddenly he stopped breathing, we don’t know if it was a heart attack or an attack; all we know is that I stop breathing. He died around 4:00 pm and my mother was the first to realize it, ”said De Ávila.

The relative assured that on several occasions they tried to communicate with the funeral home and it informed them that they needed an authorization and requested some documents from the deceased, which they had to fill out in order for the service to be provided.

“They say they are managing, that we wait for the call, that they need an authorization from Bogotá or something like that. The point is that we are trying to send the documents, but the funeral home does not answer, ”said the granddaughter.

Given this fact, the family contacted a National Police patrol to expedite the process of transferring the body. Soledad’s Health Secretariat was also in the house to verify the facts and find a quick way out.