Is it possible to have a funeral service before being transported to the Centre?

Yes. While waiting to be transported to the Centre, your body will be available to your family for up to three days for an eventual funeral service. This time frame could be extended to a maximum of seven days, subject to individual case assessment.

 Note that at the end of the legally required 24-hour period after death, the donor’s body must be preserved at a suitable temperature (+4°C or -20°C). This means that if you die in hospital, your body must be kept in a refrigerated room until it is transported; if you die in your home or in a structure that doesn’t have a cooling system for the preservation of corpses, your body will have to be transferred to a mortuary (in either a hospital or a cemetery) furnished with a refrigerated room.