body bag
Mortuary transport sack
A body bag is a zippered bag, usually black plastic or rubber, used to transport human corpses.
The term evokes war casualties, disaster victims, and crime scenes: Rescuers pulled body bags from the wreckage.
Figuratively, body bags represent death tolls or consequences: The policy will mean more body bags coming home.
- cadaverBody for dissection
- toe tagPostmortem identification marker
- John DoePlaceholder for unidentified males
- autopsyMedical examination after death
- coronerPublic death investigator
zipper · morgue · cold storage · field hospital · black plastic · medical examiner · postmortem · mortuary · forensic science · triage · epidemic response · death rituals · vinyl · death certificate · emergency preparedness · war dead · killed in action · disaster relief
- crime investigationdetective, whodunit, investigation, detectives, investigator
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- Crime Scenecrime scene, evidence marker, evidence bags, crime tape, yellow tape
- morguecadaver, corpse, coroner, medical examiner, toe tag
- bondage gearhandcuffs, collar, cuffs, gag, blindfold
- mortuary equipmentembalming fluid, trocar, drainage tube, aspirator, prep table
body bagcradle
Rocking bed for infants
incubator · bassinet · womb · delivery room · maternity ward
body bagcoffin
Burial container for remains
casket · sarcophagus · burial shroud · funeral urn · mausoleum