Someone died in my bed, what to do with the body.

[Apelila]

Was your Valentines day good? Excellent. My boyfriend found a dead body in our bed the next morning. Here's the (light) details, and a question on what to do with the bedding.

We're not sure of the specifics of what happened yet, so a brief rundown.
A friend of my boyfriends needed a place to crash after some drama. They arrived, had a beer and went to sleep. Sometime during the night they aspirated into their lungs and passed away. It wasn't a violent, thrashing choking. They couldn't turn over to couldn't clear the breathing passage.

There likely were other factors involved, we are unaware of anything specific but the way we've been told to us its highly likely they popped some pills with the beer after my boyfriend went to bed. Some heavy duty shit we don't keep locked up because only one person takes it and they need it asap when they need it.

So what do I do with the bedding? The pillows that weren't on the bed have been washed, any pillow on the bed was thrown away. The sheets have been washed and bleached to the point where they're now a different color. We wiped down the surface of the mattress with bleach and later a disinfecting wipe, but I can't help escape this nagging suspicion that I'm missing something. Google is just returning horror stories, war stories, and zombie strippers.

So tell me BG, what do you do after your bed becomes covered in corpse vomit the day after your birthday? In before 'replace the mattress' since that was already high on the list of priorities but is now #1.

[Tajin]

Call a brujo.

[Headspace]

not as entertaining as i thought,

would not bang

[tyven]

burn everything

[Brill Weave]

Just replace everything and be done with it if you're that uncomfortable. Because let's be honest, those bedclothes you will never look at the same again and you're never going to be comfortable with them.

[altwight]

burn it. make sure his soul is definitely out of it.

[Apelila]

-I- couldn't care less, they didn't rot into the mattress or anything nasty like that. But when the paramedics took out the body, it rolled and vomit got all over the pillows/sheets.
Those instantly came off the bed, so no juices soaked in through since the pillows bore the primary damage.

Sheets where easy to wash, pillows went bye bye. My worry is there's something exciting and rare in corpse vomit that's worse than regular vomit, and that I need to take precautions against it. Replacing the bed itself is now #1 priority, but if there's a health risk I'd rather sleep on the couch for a month until that is doable.

[finitek]

Just replace everything and be done with it if you're that uncomfortable. Because let's be honest, those bedclothes you will never look at the same again and you're never going to be comfortable with them.

Agree 100% with Brill on this one.
It's better to cut your losses; on the bright side there are some killer 700 thread count sheets sets to be found out there.
Remember Pulp Fiction? There is reason Mr.Wolf bought the nice sheets outright, nobody(small correction: most sane people) wants dead anything all over their sheets.

Good luck.

[jmc]

-I- could care less, they didn't rot into the mattress or anything nasty like that. But when the paramedics took out the body, it rolled and vomit got all over the pillows/sheets.
Those instantly came off the bed, so no juices soaked in through since the pillows bore the primary damage.

Sheets where easy to wash, pillows went bye bye. My worry is there's something exciting and rare in corpse vomit that's worse than regular vomit, and that I need to take precautions against it. Replacing the bed itself is now #1 priority, but if there's a health risk I'd rather sleep on the couch for a month until that is doable.

Its just vomit still..... so yea.

Clean everything, or throw away/replace everything that can be removed from mattress.

Flip mattress.

???

Profit.

[Apelila]

Good enough for me. Now for counseling for the boyfriend, he took a nap with the body in the bed thinking they where just a heavy sleeper.

[Stromgarde]

Can't put a price on peace of mind. Replace everything.

[BadKarma]

Good enough for me. Now for counseling for the boyfriend, he took a nap with the body in the bed thinking they where just a heavy sleeper.

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[Asai]

Shits haunted. Time to move.

[AoE]

Laughing my ass off that this needed to be a BG topic.

[Kuya]

I don't understand why anyone would come to believe that the vomit of a corpse that died of asphyxiation/respiratory depression would have magical properties to it.

[Cleverness]

Good enough for me. Now for counseling for the boyfriend, he took a nap with the body in the bed thinking they where just a heavy sleeper.

I really shouldn't but I laughed hard at this, I'm sorry.

Since he wasn't decomposing there for awhile your precautions should be ok, although the mental trauma of knowing someone died there will prolly linger for awhile so replacing the mattress is an option if it's still bugging either of you.

[vagus]

Can you afford a new mattress? If so, burn everything. Otherwise burn the sheets and pillow cases and toss holy water and/or febreze on the mattress. If you have nightmares, well you have been warned by the BG community.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

this is going to be the best episode of Punk'd ever

[Dimmauk]

Laughing my ass off that this needed to be a BG topic.

This us why BG is awesome.

Good enough for me. Now for counseling for the boyfriend, he took a nap with the body in the bed thinking they where just a heavy sleeper.

Reminds me of Aunt Edna

[Mazmaz]

What the shit you can just randomly die in your sleep like that?