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Why should a family not be responsible for the body of a family member?

No one is suggesting that there be no responsibility; what is being discussed in the article is the physical disposition of the remains immediately after death. From the article:

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'Unacceptable' Limpopo health department spokesperson Phuti Seloba said an investigation was under way to establish the facts.

"It is only a person with a sick mind that can treat patients in that manner; this type of instruction is unacceptable," he said.

Seloba said nursing staff acting in that manner "must have lost all sense of compassion for their fellow beings".

He confirmed that all hospitals have mortuaries where bodies are supposed to be taken to until the family can make arrangements with undertakers for proper removal of the bodies.

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