Suicide Cleanup
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In most circumstances, cleaning after a violent suicide leaves friends and family members more deeply shocked then by the suicide alone. No doubt exists among those experiencing suicide cleanup that the experience caused deep, emotional conflicts. Sadness, depression, rage, pity, and exhaustion follow the experience. The exhaustion may continue for several days in some cases because it joins with our grief's exhausting claim on our bodies.
The suicide cleanup becomes a close memory of the suicide itself. Years later the suicide scene as found dims, but the cleanup's novel experience calls out emotions experienced during the cleaning. Family members often recall cleaning after a suicide in terms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder.
As a result of cleaning after suicide's traumatic consequences, our cleaning professionals found a valuable service to offer those recovering from a friend or relative's suicide. No longer must we clean after a suiide if we have the means available to pay.
A suicide cleanup may involve small amounts of fluid removal from a hard surface. Or, a suicide cleanup may require total decontamination of a room or more. Suicide tends to leave an extraordinary amount of human bio-waste when the deceased remains down for over two days.
In such cases, a biohazard cleaner, also called a "crime scene cleaner," will apply established cleaning methods.
Suicide cleanup is usally expensive for most people, and often too expensive for low-income households. Homeowners' insurance may apply in many cases. Sometimes it is best to first call your homeowner's insurance company before contacting a cleaner.
Some professional cleaners accept cash, check, credit card, PayPal, and other payment terms.
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Suggestions for Mattress Removal following a Suicide
We use pliers, wire cutters, forceps, and anything else that helps get bloody material out of death scene mattresses. Sometimes when we cut mattress springs one or more springs close quickly, tightly, and poke a hand. This poke reminds the cleaner why they wear thick leather gloves.
I have suffered these pokes a few times. Each and every time I got poked by a bloody mattress spring I wore a thick leather glove. Each time the glove saved me. Each time I got poked because I worked in haste. “Working around someone else’s blood in haste makes no sense,” I tell myself. Then I remind myself to slow down. After all, “What’s the hurry because I have all day.”
Blood cleanup calls for focus, patience and attention to detail. Lose any of these three parts of a good working attitude and injury follows.
I lost my focus and suffered greater risk to myself because of hasteRather than follow my own rules for reducing blood from enclosed areas containing sharp objects, I threw caution to the wind. Mind you, not only do bed springs become sharp spears when cut, they become spring-loaded spears. Sometimes these spears have wet, moist, or flaky blood on them. For anyone cleaning blood, the definition of biohazard includes these key phrases: wet blood, moist blood, and flaky dried blood. Contact with a death scene mattress requires attention to detail. No one should throw a death scene mattress around like a bag of dried leaves. Handle it with care if you must handle it at all.